Category: Obituaries

Bangladesh’s National Professor Anisuzzaman passes away

May 16, 2020

• Bangladesh’s famous literary personality, educationist and national Professor Anisuzzaman passed away. He was the President of Bangla Academy since 2012.

Sahitya Akademi winning Bengali author Debesh Roy passes away

May 16, 2020

• Veteran Bengali author Debesh Roy, who had five decades of career as a writer, passed away. He was honored with the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel ‘Teesta Parer Brittanto’.

Grammy-winning singer Betty Wright passes away

May 14, 2020

• The Grammy-winning genius singer, Betty Wright passed away. Her real name is Bessie Regina Norris. She is an R&B (Rhythm & blues) singer, songwriter and background vocalist.

Previous TT national champion Manmeet Singh passes away

May 13, 2020

• Previous India national table tennis champion Manmeet Singh Walia passed away. He won the national championship in 1989 by beating S. Sriram in the men singles final at Hyderabad.

Founding father of Rock ‘n’ roll Little Richard passes away

May 12, 2020

• Founding father of Rock ‘n’ roll, Little Richard passed away. His full name Richard Wayne Pennima was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its first group of inductees in 1986.

Renowned historian Hari Shankar Vasudevan passes away

May 10, 2020

• Famous historian Hari Shankar Vasudevan passed away due to COVID-19. He was renowned worldwide for his work on Russian and European history and Indo-Russian relations.

Former Judge and Judicial member of Lokpal A K Tripathi passed away.

May 4, 2020

• Former Indian Judge and Judicial member of Loksabha Ajay Kumar Tripathi (A K Tripathi) passed away due to the pandemic COVID-19.he has also served as the Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court.

Kannada poet and writer K. S. Nisar Ahmed passed away

May 3, 2020

• Well known Kannada writer and poet, K. S. Nisar Ahmed passed away at the age of 84. He was awarded with Padma Shri(2008), the Rajyotsava Award(1981) and the Pampa award(2017) for his work.

Journalist, novelist, poet, historical researcher, and Delhi’s master chronicler, Ronald Vivian Smith, passed away

May 3, 2020

• One of the eminent historian and author Ronald Vivian Smith , also known as RV Smith passed away at the age of 82. He was born in Agra.
• His mains interests were history, antiquity, Egyptology, mysticism and the occult.He was a recipient of the Canon Holland Prize and the Rotary Award for general knowledge and the journalism award from the Michael Madhusudan Academy in Kolkata (1997-1998)

Well-known footballer Chuni Goswamy passed away

May 1, 2020

• Legendary football player of India Chuni Goswami passed away at the age of 82 due to a cardiac arrest. He had captained the 1962 Asian Games gold-winning team.