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Article: Dev Prasad (D.P.) Kumar died on August 9th of a massive cardiac arrest in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India.(1966)(Obituary)
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- Nieman Reports
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- September 22, 2009
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Dev Prasad (D.P.) Kumar died on August 9th of a massive cardiac arrest in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India. He was 79.
Kumar was best known for his more than 30 years at The Statesman, one of India's oldest English-language newspapers, where he served as a reporter and correspondent throughout the country before becoming the resident editor, a position he held until 1992.
Bob Giles, Curator of the Nieman Foundation and a Nieman Fellow the same year as Kumar, said, "Dev brought an intense interest in India's relations ...