Uttarakhand loses several eminent theatre and journalistic icons due to dreaded Corona
While the dreaded pandemic is claiming one life after another expeditiously in various parts of the country making death an extremely common affair putting one and all into immense sensitivity, terror likesituation, in shock, despair, trauma and speechlessness, everyone is losing his or her close acquintance , near n dear ones and the closest in the family.
You open your social media account and would be confronted with sad demise one after another uninterruptedly eliciting tributes and shocking response.
How long will these brutal tragedies continue, is a moot question.
Today we have received the the shocking news of losing several friends n heartily loved ones like eminent journalist Shesh Narayan Singh, senior journalist of Uttarakhand Rajendra Joshi, running popular digital Devbhoomi media, astologer Mahesh Shastri, well known social activist and Uttarakhand andolankari Balwant Singh, Mahendra Singh Bisht, Tenth Pahari and eminent film director, producer n theatre activist of Uttarakhand Surendra Bhandari.
We have been incessantly losing journalists, theatre activists, social reformers, activists, writers and known friends of eminence including those with whom we’ve been in close proximity including the most loved one family members.
The death of eminent journalist and intellectual to the core Shesh Narayan Singh, veteran theatre activist of Uttarakhand Surendra Singh Bhandari, senior journo Rajendra Joshi, leading astrologer Mahesh Shastri, activists Balwant Singh Rawat and Mahendra Singh Bisht, Theth Pahadi, have left a massive void in the society difficult and neigh to impossible to be filled in the coming future. Our deepest condolences and heartfelt tributes.
The union minister of HRD Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, President of UJF Sunil Negi n Vice President of Uttarakhand Congress Dhirendra Pratap have expressed their deepest condolences and termed journalist Rajendra Joshi a scribe with sharp pen pursuing free n fearless journalism always writing for the poor, hapless, down trodden and the issues of public interest.