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Eminent scribe Moti Nandi passes away

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Posted: Jan 04, 2010 at 0452 hrs IST

Kolkata Sahitya Academy award winner and eminent sports journalist, Moti Nandi, passed away at a city nursing home on Sunday. He was suffering from multiple-organ failure and was admitted to the nursing home on December 23. The former president of the Calcutta Sports Journalists’ Club was 79, and is survived by wife and three daughters.

Nandi was honoured with the Sahitya Academy Award for Bengali novel Sada Kham in 1991. As sports editor of the Ananda Bazar Patrika, Nandi changed the face of Bengali sports journalism. His sports-related fiction writing, reflecting his experience about the trials and tribulations of sportspersons, however, made him a household name.

The leading characters of Koni, Stopper, Striker, Nanida Not Out and Jeeban Ananta touched the hearts of people like never before. He had also covered the 1980 Moscow and 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

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