Journalist Ranesh Maitra no more

Language movement veteran, Freedom Fighter and Ekushey Padak winning journalist Ranesh Maitra has passed away.

He was 90.

He breathed his last at Popular Hospital in the capital in the early hours of Monday.

Ranesh left behind his wife, two sons, three daughters and a host of family members, friends and well wishers to mourn his death.

He was one of the organizers of the language movement in 1952. In the same year, he was elected the president of the district organizing committee of the student union.

In 1952, he was one of the strongest organizers of the Language Movement and was elected the Chhatra Union district unit president.

He joined ‘Dainik Sangbad’ in 1955 after working as a journalist for three years in ‘Dainik Satyajug’ published from Calcutta. He has served as Pabna correspondent in reputed dailies like The Daily Morning News, Daily Observer, The New Nation and The Daily Star.

Since 2001, he voluntarily retired and wrote columns as a freelance journalist.