Till we meet again, our gentle friend
Till we meet again, our gentle friend
Pune Mirror / Updated: Apr 24, 2021, 06:00 IST
SHIVAJI MANE: December 20, 1978 April 23, 2021
Around 2 am on Friday, the ill news that we had all been hoping against knocked at our door. Yet another
colleague of ours, Shivaji Mane, had succumbed to COVID-19, at the age of just 43.
Shivaji fought a severe infection for two long weeks, and breathed his last at the Command Hospital around 1.45 am. He had been moved there from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Cantonment General Hospital Pune to receive better facilities and treatment.
While his condition had continued to deteriorate rapidly over a fortnight, his family and dear ones had clung to the minor hope that he would survive the battle.
Sitaram Yechury s 34-Year-Old Son Ashish Passes Away Due to COVID-19
Ashish Yechury, a journalist, was working at the online portal Newslaundry.
Ashish Yechury. Photo: Facebook
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New Delhi: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury’s son Ashish, a 34-year-old journalist, died of COVID-19 in the morning.
Ashish would have celebrated his 35th birthday on June 9. He was undergoing treatment 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.
“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 â doctors, nurses, frontline health workers, sanitation workers and innumerable others who stood by us,” Yechury said on Twitter on Thursday morning.
22 Apr, 2021
It came over a TV ticker, the news that froze me with dread: CPIM leader Sitaram Yechury s son, Ashish Yechury, had died of Covid in the early hours of Thursday. I knew, of course, that Ashish, my kind, generous, cheerful friend and unassumingly intelligent colleague with a wicked sense of humour, was in hospital, battling the virus for over two weeks. But I didnât want to believe that he was gone. Gone he was, however, and it took a while for the realisation to sink in.
Ashish had been at
Newslaundry only a few months. And since weâve mainly been working remotely since the pandemic began last year, most of my colleagues didnât even get to meet him, except on Zoom calls. Yet, he won everybodyâs affection and admiration. He was just that kind of a person.
Accused in POCSO acquitted by court
Accused in POCSO acquitted by court
ByArchana MoreArchana More / Updated: Apr 15, 2021, 06:00 IST
A shocking apathy on the part of police and
prosecution has meant that the prime accused in a sexual assault case has been acquitted by
Pune sesions court two days ago. It has been revealed that Amol Nemade (22), the prime accused in the case, has been acquitted by the court on the basis of not having enough evidence against him, for him to be proven guilty in the case.
In a case dating back to 2016, the girl had filed a complaint against the accused of sexual abuse with the promise of marriage. Back then, the case was registered at the
EDITOR’S NOTE: Of second chances
Pune Mirror / Updated: Apr 6, 2021, 06:00 IST
As we are coping with the second wave of
COVID-19 and its consequent ramifications on our lives euphemistically termed ‘the new normal’ cutting corners and downsizing have become mainstay operations. Indeed, for over a year now, they have been topics of hushed discussions at the water fountains in corporate offices and within the privacy of our living rooms.
The wily virus has snatched away many of our loved ones, just as we suffered job losses thanks to businesses shutting down and corporates cutting back. A few years ago high net worth individuals, comprising a sizeable section of the upper middleclass, rode the crest on disposable incomes all of it taken away in a jiffy. Social media posts of lavish weddings and fish-faced selfies at St Tropez or atop Mt Kilimanjaro morphed into images of one-pot meals, baking sourdough bread and whipping up foamy coffee at home.