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Eminent journalist Prabhash Joshi succumbed to a heart attack on Thursday night. He was 72. Joshi, who was complaining of heart attack, had passed away, when he was admitted around 11.30 pm.
He is survived by wife Usha Joshi, two sons, Sandeep and Sopan, daughter Sonal and mother Leela Bai.
Joshi kicked off his career as a journalist with Nayi Duniya and became the founder-editor of Hindi daily ‘Jansatta’ in 1983. He was a true Gandhian. He had been working for Indian Express also as the resident editor at Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Delhi.
An eminent cricket-writer he experienced cardiac arrest during yesterday's India-Australia ODI match.
