David Page

David Page (19 March 1944 – 10 October 2024) was a British journalist, historian, media expert, academic, educator, author and policy researcher. He developed a firm interest in South Asia and he extensively engaged in researching South Asian related demographic aspects and political landscape. He was also responsible for handling majority of the radio broadcasts in South Asian languages. He was a keen observer of the major sequence of events which took place in South Asia. He was also a former editor and manager of the BBC South Asian Services. He spent over 20 years working closely with the BBC World Service as its correspondent.

Early life and career Page was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, before graduating from Merton College, Oxford in 1966, with a first class degree in Modern History. He spent 1966-67 working as a lecturer at Edwardes College Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province in Peshawar. The book Satellites over South Asia: Broadcasting, Culture and Public Interest, was based on a pilot project which came to fruition with the collaboration of many researchers and journalists in South Asia and the book was also taken as a source of information for Indian filmmaker Nupur Basu's 57 minute film Michael Jackson Comes to Manikganj.

Personal life and death Page was often diagnosed with dengue during his frequent visits to Sri Lanka and had reportedly spent a longer spell at hospitals, often requiring blood transfusions. During his stay in Sri Lanka, he was using a wheelchair on an occasion which was deemed precarious before heading to London.