वरिष्ठ पत्रकार प्रफुल्ल बिदवई का आकस्मिक निधन

वरिष्ठ राजनीतिक विश्लेषक प्रफुल्ल बिदवई नहीं रहे। उनका निधन हो गया है।

वरिष्ठ पत्रकार ओम थानवी ने लिखा- उनके निधन से पत्रकारिता को बड़ा सदमा लगा है। जुझारू पत्रकार प्रफुल्ल बिदवई नहीं रहे और मुझे अभी प्रेस क्लब में पत्रकारिता के बुरे दिनों पर बोलने जाना था। अब क्या बोलूंगा पता नहीं। बिदवईजी के जाने से बुरे दिनों का अँधेरा और सघन हो गया। 

अंबरीश राय ने अपने एफबी वाल पर लिखा – this is really heartbreaking news for all of us. we worked with him on several democratic issues..such a brave person, activist, thinker, journalist and ideologue…great loss of our Nation.

जमाल किदवई ने लिखा – Good Bye Comrade! Veteran journalist Praful Bidwai passes away. 13:35 Veteran journalist Praful Bidwai passes away : Journalist, social science researcher and human rights activist, Praful Bidwai has passed away. He was just 66. He is believed to have asphyxiated while eating food. He passed away in Amsterdam.

Bidwai wrote on environment, global justice and peace and was one of South Asia’s most widely published columnists whose articles have appeared on Rediff.com, The Times of India, Frontline, etc. He has also been a regular contributor to The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique and Il Manifesto.

His website, Prafulbidwai.org reads: “He has co-authored or contributed to several books on political economy, the environment, sustainable development, science and technology, ethnicity and politics, North-South relations, and security and nuclear issues. Bidwai is a founder-member of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, an umbrella organisation of Indian peace groups founded in 2000. He received the Sean MacBride International Peace Prize, 2000 of International Peace Bureau, Geneva and London, one of the world’s oldest peace organisations. Bidwai read science and technology, philosophy and economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. “

RIP Mr Bidwai, you will be missed.