Indian journalist and former parliamentarian Pritish Nandy handed away at his residence in Mumbai on January 8. He reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest. His funeral happened on Wednesday night.
Veteran actor Anupam Kher took to social media to pay tribute to his shut buddy. He wrote, “Deeply deeply saddened and shocked to know in regards to the demise of one in every of my dearest and closest buddies #PritishNandy! Superb poet, author, filmmaker and a courageous and distinctive editor/journalist! He was my assist system and an important supply of energy in my preliminary days in Mumbai. We shared a lot of issues in widespread. He was additionally one of the fearless individuals I had come throughout. All the time Bigger than life. I learnt so many issues from him. Off-late we didn’t meet a lot.”
Pritish Nandy has virtually 40 books to his title. He additionally translated poems from different languages equivalent to Urdu, Bengali, and Punjabi to English. Apart from being a author, Nandy served because the Publishing Director of The Instances of India group. Furthermore, he was a Rajya Sabha member and was elected as part of the then-united Shiv Sena.