Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Veteran journalist is dead
Veteran journalist Dharam Shourie, 72, died after a prolonged illness, July 29. Shourie came to the United States in 1989, as the United Nations correspondent for Press Trust of India. Before that, he served in New Delhi with the PTI.
According to news reports sourcing family members, Shourie had been ill for the last two months and was hospitalized two weeks ago. He died from multiple complications.
"It's really a sad day for all of us in the journalism world that we lost Dharam sahib," said New York based photojournalist Jay Mandal.
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According to news reports sourcing family members, Shourie had been ill for the last two months and was hospitalized two weeks ago. He died from multiple complications.
"It's really a sad day for all of us in the journalism world that we lost Dharam sahib," said New York based photojournalist Jay Mandal.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com/
Labels: journalism, journalist, journalist dead, photojournalist, photojournalist jay mandal, veteran journalist dharam shourie
Monday, May 11, 2009
New York city photographer beaten at rally
Well-known photojournalist Jay Mandal of New York was severely beaten up while covering an election rally in Kolkata last week.Mandal was apparently covering a meeting convened by the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Tamluk, Rajyashree Chowdhury, in Nandigram a part of the Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency, when a group of men on motorcycles wearing Trinamool Congress headbands arrived.
Apart from attacking those at the rally, he said, they pounced on him, snatched and damaged his expensive cameras and took away the chips that carried his photographs.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
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