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FORMER SPORTS EDITOR OF THE HINDU & FORMER EDITOR SPORTSTAR,NIRMAL SHEKHAR PASSES AWAY

Nirmal Shekar, former Sports Editor of The Hindu and former editor of Sportstar, passed away here on Wednesday night. He was 60.

Nirmal, who was one of India’s most widely read sportswriters in a career that spanned more than three decades, joined The Hindu in 1980 and was with the institution till he retired on September 30, 2015.

He became The Hindu’s Sports Editor in 2003 and took independent charge of Sportstar in early 2012. In the early 1980s, Nirmal studied in the United States on a fellowship. He was part of the visiting faculty in the Asian College of Journalism at Chennai.

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