Senior journalist Pradip Chowdhury dead
Friday - October 5, 2018 7:22 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Kolkata Oct 5 (IANS) Veteran journalist and former News Editor of Press Trust of India (PTI) Pradip Chowdhury has passed away at a private hospital here following a cardiac arrest family sources said. He was 64.
Chowdhury who died on Thursday is a widower and is survived by two daughters.
He was admitted to hospital with brain damage last month.
An alumnus of Calcutta Boys School and Presidency College Chowdhury -- popular in journalistic circles as PC -- joined PTI in 1979 and retired as its News Editor in Kolkata in 2014 after 35 years of service.
He had a brief stint as the agency s Islamabad correspondent.
Early in his career Chowdhury was also posted as PTI s Gangtok bureau manager for some time.
Known for his impeccable writing and editing skills and erudition Chowdhury was for years considered a pillar of the agency s eastern Indian desk here.
A voracious reader his interest ranged from architecture to history music and fine arts.
Equally adept at the brush and the lens the versatile man was also a guitarist and fond of writing limericks. His blog on photoshop had a large following.
--IANS ssp/mag/sed
Chowdhury who died on Thursday is a widower and is survived by two daughters.
He was admitted to hospital with brain damage last month.
An alumnus of Calcutta Boys School and Presidency College Chowdhury -- popular in journalistic circles as PC -- joined PTI in 1979 and retired as its News Editor in Kolkata in 2014 after 35 years of service.
He had a brief stint as the agency s Islamabad correspondent.
Early in his career Chowdhury was also posted as PTI s Gangtok bureau manager for some time.
Known for his impeccable writing and editing skills and erudition Chowdhury was for years considered a pillar of the agency s eastern Indian desk here.
A voracious reader his interest ranged from architecture to history music and fine arts.
Equally adept at the brush and the lens the versatile man was also a guitarist and fond of writing limericks. His blog on photoshop had a large following.
--IANS ssp/mag/sed
