Veteran journalist Vinod Dua dies at 67.Veteran journalist Vinod Dua, who was admitted to Apollo Hospital’s intensive care unit, has died, his daughter and actor-comedian Mallika Dua stated on Saturday. He was 67. The final rites of the effectively-identified journalist, who was hospitalised with Covid earlier this 12 months and misplaced his spouse, radiologist Padmavati ‘Chinna’ Dua, to the virus in June, might be carried out at the Lodhi crematorium right here on Sunday, she stated.
“Our irreverent, fearless and extraordinary father, Vinod Dua has handed away. He lived an inimitable life, rising from the refugee colonies of Delhi to the height of journalistic excellence for over 42 years, all the time, all the time talking fact to energy.
“He is now with our mother, his beloved spouse Chinna in heaven the place they may proceed to sing, cook dinner, journey and drive one another up the wall,” Mallika Dua wrote on her Instagram Stories.
Vinod Dua, a Hindi broadcast journalism pioneer with stints in Doordarshan and NDTV, was moved to the ICU of Apollo Hospital on Monday.
Vinod Dua and his spouse have been in a hospital in Gurgaon when the second Covid wave was at its peak. The journalist’s well being had suffered ever since and he had been out and in of hospitals.
The couple can be mother and father to elder daughter Bakul Dua, a medical psychologist.
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