[LIS-Forum] Another Sad News

[Divakar Potluri]

A.K.Dasgupta, veteran librarian, passed away after a brief
illness at Hyderabad. He was 86. After superannuating
from the Administrative Staff College of India, he designed and developed
Research and Reference Division for the Eeendu/ETV Media Group. Apart from being
an illustrious librarian, as a free lance writer and columnist, he contributed
to news papers and magazines on matters of contemporary interest.

Well known work:  A.K. Dasgupta,An
Essay in Personal Bibliography: A Bibliography of Writings on and by S.R.
Ranganathan (Bombay: Asia, 1967). 405 p.

Though confined to home, he was active and doing well all
these years. Hospitalized with pneumonia, he was on life support system for a
while, before the end came in at 9 pm on Monday. Prior to cremation on Tuesday
morning, his eyes were donated to L.V. Prasad Eye Institute. His wife, Ashoka
Dasgupta, also a librarian, pre-deceased him. The Dasguptas did not have
children. Two of his nephews (one from Pune, and the other from Kolkata) took
care of the situation at the end.

P.Divakar
Hyderabad
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