Veteran TV Journalist Kamal Khan Succumbs to Heart Attack
New Delhi: Veteran television journalist Kamal Khan succumbed to a fatal heart attack at his Lucknow home on Friday, January 14, 2022. He is survived by his wife Ruchi and son Aman. He was 61 years of age.
Kamal Khan worked with the NDTV for nearly three decades. He was known for his rhetorical reporting style and insights into Uttar Pradesh politics.
NDTV shared an email that read, “It is a terrible, terrible day for NDTV. We have lost Kamal Khan; he was 61 and the heart and soul of our Lucknow bureau, an NDTV veteran who had boundless time and kind words for anyone who encountered him.”
“Kamal’s reportage over the last decades stood out for its perceptiveness, integrity, and the way he delivered hard truths with poetic dexterity. Most of all, he was a wonderful human being, who touched the lives of all those who knew him,” it added.
Khan served as an executive editor of NDTV and won several accolades including the Ramnath Goenka Award, NT award for the Best Documentary on Environment Awareness, and the SAARC Writers and Literature Federation award for contribution to Hindi TV journalism. Khan even received the Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi Award from the President of India.
Kamal Khan was born in 1960. He completed his Master’s in English Literature and went on to study Russian Language and Philosophy from Moscow University. He began his career as a Russian interpreter for Hindi daily Navbharat Times before joining NDTV in 1995.
(Avya Mathur)
