Veteran Assamese Journalist Tilak Hazarika Passes Away at 96

He passed away after a prolonged illness after a brain haemorrhage. (Photo: @BKalitaINC)

• Veteran Assamese journalist Tilak Hazarika has died following a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 96 and is survived by his wife and daughter.
• Hazarika passed away a little after midnight on Saturday at a local nursing home where he was admitted on 18 September following a brain haemorrhage.
• Hazarika was serving till his death as the Editor of the Assamese weekly Sadin and as an advisor of the vernacular daily Dainik Pratidin.
• Members of the media fraternity paid their tribute to the veteran journalist at the Guwahati Press Club before his last rites were performed.