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Tribune scribe dead
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 27
T.V. Lakshminarayan, Special Correspondent of The Tribune, died here today after battling with lung cancer for over two years. He was 39 and is survived by his wife Ranjana and two sons.

Lakshminarayan, who was popularly called in journalistic circles by his initials "TVL", was cremated at Nigambodh Ghat tonight. He joined The Tribune in 1994 as a Principal Correspondent and was promoted as Special Correspondent in 2001.

TVL had worked for a Malaysian newspaper at the beginning of his more than 17-year-long journalistic career, but he flowered when he joined the United News of India in 1986. UNI staffers had nicknamed him "All-rounder" because he covered such diverse fields as sports, courts, crime and politics.

The President of the Editors' Guild, Mr Hari Jaisingh, described TVL's death as "a huge loss to journalism."