Senior TOI journalist Anand Bodh passes away, was posted in Shimla and belonged to Kinnaur
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Anand Bodh, a senior journalist working with The Times of India, passed away on the intervening night of Saturday/Sunday (July 7, 2024) in Shimla probably following a heart attack. He was 48.
Belonging to Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, Anand Bodh was posted as Senior Assistant Editor at the leading English daily’s Shimla bureau.
He was earlier working with the media organisation in Chandigarh and was transferred to Shimla following the superannuation of the previous Chief of Bureau in the Himachal capital.
According to information, Anand Bodh fell on the floor around 1 am and neighbours living beneath his flat in the multi-storey house heard a loud bang. When they reached his house, he was lying motionless. He was rushed to the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, but the doctors there couldn’t save him.
“So sad to hear about the sudden demise of close friend Anand Bodh… He was just 48. May God bless your soul in heaven, friend. Om Shanti! Perhaps heart attack… Or brain haemorrhage. He fell down on the floor,” wrote a friend in a social media group. “Sad! Life is just a passing trivia in larger canvas — people come and go every moment. Only how beautifully you lived it remains,” wrote another friend.
Anand Bodh was known to be a cheerful person. “The untimely death of senior journalist Anand Bodh is very sad. Anand was a person of cheerful disposition.
“He always spoke in a funny way, filling the atmosphere with laughter wherever he went. Whether it was the press gallery of the Vidhan Sabha or a press conference, his presence brought joy.
We often called him ‘Guruji’ in jest and advised him to establish an ashram. He would reply that he would do just that. A couple of times during press conferences, he made sharp remarks, but things would quickly return to normal and the laughter would resume. Several years ago, he told us about his heart surgery and shared an incredible spiritual experience he had at Manimahesh during that time.
May God rest your soul, Bodh Sahib!” wrote a fellow journalist on Facebook.
