Mizoram Scribe passes away

AIZAWL, Aug 1 NNN: H.Zosangliana, senior journalist and former president of Mizoram Journalist’ Association (MJA) passed away today at 10:20 am in his residence at Zotlang, Aizawl. The funeral service of H Zosangliana will held tomorrow to be conducted by Rev.Darchungnunga. He was 58 and was survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. […]

AIZAWL, Aug 1 NNN: H.Zosangliana, senior journalist and former president of Mizoram Journalist’ Association (MJA) passed away today at 10:20 am in his residence at Zotlang, Aizawl.
The funeral service of H Zosangliana will held tomorrow to be conducted by Rev.Darchungnunga.
He was 58 and was survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.
H Zosangliana was attached with several newspapers based in Mizoram.
He had joined the profession when he was still in college. Aizawl based daily Tawrhbawm was the first newspaper he had joined as a reporter and later became the editor of the same. He was also an editor-in-chief in the Evening Post. Till the time of his demise Zosangliana was working as the Contributing Editor in Zalen Sunday newspaper. Zosangliana was an MJA member since August 18, 1990 and became an Executive Committee Member of the MJA on March 28, 2008. He was elected the president of MJA on March 27, 2010.
A tonsil cancer was detected in 2006 at TATA Hospital, Mumbai where he was treated.
Meanwhile, the sudden demise of H. Zosangliana has brought a gloomy mood amongst the journalists of Assam particularly in the Barak Valley.
Secretary of Journalists’ Federation of Assam, Subir Dutta in a statement expressed shock and remembered the initiative taken by the then president of MJA during uneasy situation in 2010. Zosangliana had sent a team of journalists led by Zirliana and Vanlalrema Vantawl respectively to Silchar and due effective exchange of informations between MJA and JAFA the troubled situation settled immediately thereafter.
Subir Dutta added that the leadership of H. Zosangliana will be always remembered by the journalists of Assam.Nilotpol Choudhury, editor of The Mizoram Post, Sankar Dey, general secretary, Silchar Press Club, senior journalist J.L Choudhury and Shantanu Chakraborty expressed their condolences at the demise of H. Zosangliana and hoped that at this hour of grief the family members of the deceased will be bestowed with God’s mercy to have fortitude to bear this irreplaceable loss.

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