TK Ramasamy
dead
Tribune News
Service
Chandigarh, February 27
Mr T.K. Ramasamy, Editorial Adviser to The Tribune, died here today. He was 62. The funeral procession will start from his house, 414-A, Sector 30, tomorrow at 3 p.m.
A bachelor, Mr Ramasamy had been ailing for some time. His condition took a turn for the worse this morning. He breathed his last while being rushed to the hospital. Mr Ramasamy joined The Tribune on February 21, 1982, as Assistant Editor. He retired as Associate Editor on March 16, 2000, but was reappointed Editorial Adviser in which position he continued till today.
The editorial staff of The Tribune held a condolence meeting in the evening to mourn his death. One minute’s silence was observed in memory of the departed soul.
Paying rich tributes to Mr Ramasamy’s varied personality, Hari Jaisingh, Editor, The Tribune, said: “Ramasamy was a paradigm. He towered above the rest of journalists by his sheer brilliance. He was totally committed to his profession and The Tribune as an institution. A well-read person, he possessed tremendous ability to objectively analyse political, economic and social events with a sharp and incisive pen. He will also be remembered for the encouragement he gave to young colleagues. The world of Indian journalism today is poorer without him. We do not see a journalist of his class these days.”
Mr B.S. Jandu, President of the
Tribune Employees Union, also offered his condolences. The Punjab
Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, in a condolence message
said that in the death of Mr Ramasamy a void had been created in
the field of journalism.
From The Tribune, 28 Feb 2002
Scribes’ death mourned
Tribune News
Service
Chandigarh, March 10
Chandigarh-based journalists today mourned the deaths of T.K.
Ramasamy, editorial consultant to the Tribune, former Dainik
Tribune Assistant Editor, Hariom Pandey, former News Editor of
Dainik Tribune, Mr Joginder Bhatia, and a Punjab Tribune staffer
at Jalandhar, Amarjit Sidhu.
Mourners, led by a former Dainik Tribune Editor and Chandigarh Journalist Association president, Radhey Shyam Sharma, remembered their services to the profession
From The Tribune, 10 March 2002
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