Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published February 6, 2009.
A long-time FSRN reporter passed away Friday morning. Prakash Chand Dubey, better known as PC Dubey, reported for us in Bihar, on the Indo-Nepal border. In addition to FSRN, PC was a print and photojournalist, contributing to Thailand-based Union of Catholic Asian News and Ahamadabad-based Commodity Market magazine. He was a Right to Information activist and helped to publish a Hindi magazine, "Terai Tarang" covering the Indo-Nepal border. PC was quite accomplished, with a doctorate in international politics, a post graduate diploma in journalism and a law degree from Bihar University. PC's contributions to the FSRN collective was always done in the sprit of teamwork - always telling the editorial staff to "do the needful" with his story ideas. PC is survived by his wife, Meena Dubey, an 18-year-old daughter, Ruchika Rani and a 17-year old son, Rituraj.
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