S. Dinakar
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S. Dinakar, The Hindu’s Senior Deputy Editor (Sports), handed away at Indore. The veteran cricket author had simply reported the third Test between India and Australia and was getting ready to depart for Ahmedabad for the fourth and ultimate Test, when he collapsed in his lodge room. He is survived by his father.
With greater than a three-decade service with The Hindu Group, Dinakar, 57, labored within the normal desk earlier than shifting to Sportstar. Later he moved to The Hindu’s sports activities division and his despatches appeared in each The Hindu and Sportstar with the most recent being one on the Holkar-influence over Indore’s cricketing heritage. The piece is showing concurrently with this obituary.
Dinakar reported extensively on sport starting from cricket to tennis and crusing apart from native soccer and hockey. Eventually, he specialised in cricket, his past love, travelling throughout India and the cricketing globe, submitting experiences that had a contact of aptitude and insights into approach.
He had different pursuits too: Carnatic music and films; and he was ever keen to debate the most recent developments on the earth of arts. And when within the temper, he might belt an outdated Kishore Kumar or Ilayaraja quantity. He by no means needed to hold his reporting boots and after yet another stint at chronicling Test cricket, Dinakar handed away because the quintessential newsman.
