NEW DELHI: Two young journalists, Ashish Yechury and Chanchal Pal Chauhan, succumbed to Covid-19 on Thursday. Their passing was deeply mourned by former colleagues and the wider journalistic community.
Ashish, 34, the son of CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, was undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at a Gurgaon hospital, where he breathed his last.
“It is with great sadness that I have to inform that I lost my elder son Ashish Yechury to Covid-19 this morning. I want to thank all those who gave us hope and who treated him doctors, nurses, frontline health workers, sanitation workers and innumerable others who stood by us,” Yechury said on Twitter.
For Ashish Yechury (1986-2021), journalist.
It is difficult to overstate the grip of COVID-19 on India. WhatsApp bristles with messages about this or that friend and family member with the virus, while there are angry posts about how the central government has utterly failed its citizenry. This hospital is running out of beds and that hospital has no more oxygen, while there is evasion from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Cabinet.
Thirteen months after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the world was in the midst of a pandemic, the Indian government looks into the headlights like a transfixed animal, unable to move. While other countries are well advanced on their vaccination programs, the Indian government sits back and watches a second wave or a third wave land heavily on the Indian people.
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CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury s son dies of COVID-19 in Gurgaon hospital
Ashish, who studied at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, worked in several publications, including the Times of India in Delhi, before moving to Pune.
New Delhi: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday informed his son Ashish died of COVID-19 in the morning. Ashish, a journalist by profession who would have celebrated his 35th birthday on June 9, was recovering well at Gurgaon s Medanta Hospital, people close to the family added.
They described his sudden death at 5.30 AM after a two-week battle with the disease as a shock.
Ashish Yechury was eldest son of CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury. (File photo)
New Delhi:
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said his elder son Ashish died of COVID-19 in the morning.
Ashish Yechury, who would have turned 35 on June 9, was recovering well at Gurgaon s Medanta Hospital, people close to the family added, describing his sudden death at 5.30 am after a two-week battle with the disease as a shock. It is with great sadness that I have to inform that I lost my elder son, Ashish Yechury to COVID-19 this morning. I want to thank all those who gave us hope and who treated him - doctors, nurses, frontline health workers, sanitation workers and innumerable others who stood by us, Mr Yechury said on Twitter.