VISAKEO holds condolence meet for Gopal Mishra

VISAKEO holds condolence meet for Gopal Mishra

BHUBANESWAR: Viswa Sambad Kendra, a multi-lingual news agency on Tuesday held a condolence meet here and paid floral tributes to late senior journalist Gopal Mishra.

Late Mishra, who had earlier received Narada Sanman, was an outstanding writer and his death has created a vacuum in Orissa media sector, said president Viswa Sambad Kendra Dr Sachidananda Tripathy while presiding over the meet.

Mishra(77), who was one among the most influential scribe, had started his career in Oriya a language daily Prajatantra and later joined as the Bureau Chief of English daily Amrit Bazar Patrika at Bhubaneswar.

After his retirement from the Amrita Bazar Patrika, he edited an English weekly called 'The Eastern Times'' and became a columnist writing for language dailies. His writes up were mostly came in Oriya daily, The Sambad.

During his five decade long career in journalism he established himself as the top notch journalist in the state. He was honoured with several awards for his writings on various issues concerning the state, added secretary Sumanta Kumar Panda. RSS State spokesman Ravi Narayan Panda, media persons including Soumendra Jena, Anurjay Dhal, Jagadish Patnaik, Golak Chandra Das, Jagadish Patnaik, Harihar Satpathy, Deepak Agarwal, Prasanna Parida, Ramji Dora, Nirajan Nayak and GR Nayak were among those present.