By D N Singh
During the period from the days the pandemic outbroke, there has been a series of deaths of journalists in the country. Most of them were young and promising.
And a sizable number of them had remained the popular faces in the television and in the print media as well.
Quite a number of journalists from Odisha have fallen victim to the Covid-19. The reasons, may be, an over exposer to the unfriendly time when the pandemic was at peak.
A rough anthology shows that, more than 52 journalists from Odisha alone died of the Covid-19.
At the national level also some known faces left all because of some unforeseen reasons.
Known for his poetic demeanor to describe situations in his reporting, NDTV’s star face Kamal Khan’s sudden death was a shocking reality that many could not digest for some time.
A man who carried the viewers to a state of nostalgia through his tenor, will be remembered for long for his novel style and precision in the deliveries.
Khan’s death was preceded by the sad departure of a famed TV anchor, Rohit Sardana. Sardana, after a low-profiled stint in the Zee News, suddenly got pitch-forked to become a sought-after moderator in television debates.
Before his death, Sardana had tweeted through his personal handle that, staying some days in this hospital one gets a feel that, let temples, other religious structures and statues wait, but India is required to lay much more emphasis on good hospitals on a priority basis.
Nothing can be more awakening a message for the ones who display outrage over communities and their religious allegiance.
A 38-year-old zealous photojournalist for Reuters who decided he wanted to help cover the story on Taliban’s campaign to reconquer Afghanistan, telling a boss: “If we don’t go, who will?” lost his life in his work front.
Today, i.e. on Saturday, we have lost yet another young journalist, Ravish Tiwari, who died before he could live his life. He was 41 years old only.
No matter what were the reasons behind the deaths of the scribes, but what appears to be a ruthless truth that, they were all very young and have fallen prey to the shattering rage of an ominous fate.
