Senior journalist and Padma Shri awardee Abhay Chhajlani passed away on Thursday morning.
Chhajlani was born on 4th August 1934 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He entered the field of journalism in 1955. In 1963, he took over as the executive editor and later remained the editor-in-chief of Naidunia for a long time.
In the year 1965, he graduated from Thomson Foundation, Cardiff (UK). He was the first journalist to be selected for this training from the field of Hindi journalism.
Chhajlani was president of ILNA, the apex organization of Indian language newspapers in 1988, 1989 and 1994. He was the Vice President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) in 2000 and President in 2002.
He was the President of Madhya Pradesh Table Tennis Association for a long time and then remained on the post of President for life.