Ardeshir Cowasjee Died today (a veteran English journalist)

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I did not know Ardshir died, I saw his quotes on face book by different friends but did not pay heed, why quotes are given again and again, while probed I knew, the veteran journalist died today.

No doubt, it is tragic news in the world of English Journalism, he wrote entirely with brave heart and focused variety of issues (either social and political) but he criticized Bhutto till end of his life and applauded General Musharraf who sent back democracy and got sham referendum and in self exile now.

Everyone has to die, I am cordially sad for his demise, though he left to write and he had written his last article in Dawn, while he was resigning from journalism.

He used to reply everybody if he was corresponded, he always replied me and guided simply if I asked anything.

Regards

Hisam Memon 

Saturday, November 24, 2012

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Following is the news in Daily Dawn Karachi:

KARACHI: One of Pakistan’s oldest and most renowned columnists, Ardeshir Cowasjee, passed away in Karachi on Saturday at the age of 86.

Cowasjee, whose weekly columns graced the Dawn newspaper from 1988 to 2011, was suffering from chest illness and had been admitted in a Karachi hospital’s intensive care unit for the past 12 days.

Born on April 13, 1926 to Rustom Faqir Cowasjee and Mucca Rustomjee, Ardeshir joined the family shipping business after completing his education from the Bai Virbaiji Soparivala Parsi (BVS) High School and DJ Sindh Govt Science College.

He had two children with wife Nancy Dinshaw. His daughter lives in Karachi and works in the family business and his son is an architect in the US. Their mother passed away in 1992.

“Now, old at 85, tired, and disillusioned with a country that just cannot pull itself together in any way and get on with life in this day and age, I have decided to call it a day,” he wrote in a column in December 2011 for Dawn.

He went on to write two more columns that year before he finally put his pen to rest

http://dawn.com/2012/11/24/renowned-columnist-ardeshir-cowasjee-passes-away/