Gauri Shankar Kalita (1955 - 9 June 2010 ) was an Indian journalist.
Kalita was one of the popular journalists in the north-eastern state of
Assam. He graduated from the Cotton College of Guwahati.
[D N Chakravarty]
Tribute to Gauri Sankar Kalita
, in The Sentinel
In his youth he studied
Marxism and in 1978 was the only Indian representative at the International Youth Conference in
Ulaanbaatar, with his speech broadcast on Soviet television.
An expert on Assam, and of north-east Indian problems, his mother tongue was Assamese though he had a deep knowledge of English. Kalita worked for one of the main daily newspapers of the north-eastern region, ''
The Sentinel'', where he started his career,
[Senior journalist Gauri Shankar Kalita passes away](_blank)
, in Meri News, 13 June 2010 and was the editor of the
Arunachal Pradesh and
Meghalaya editions. He also was the Editor of ''
The North East Times'' and of the main Assamese-language newspaper ''
Janasadharan''.
He died in Guwahati on 9 June 2010 after a cardiac arrest.
in MediaManch, 10 giugno 2010
Tarun Gogoi, the Chief Minister of Assam , said that "Kalita had an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the problems plaguing the State and the region and created public opinion through his writings. The void created by his death will be hard to fill".[Senior scribe GS Kalita passes away](_blank)
in The Assam Tribune, 9 June 2010
His wife, Garima Kalita, is a retired Head of The Department of Philosophy of Udalguri College, Assam, and is currently settled at Guwahati
References
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2010 deaths
People from Golaghat district
Indian male journalists
Indian newspaper editors
1955 births
Journalists from Assam
Cotton College, Guwahati alumni
20th-century Indian journalists