There will never be another like you, writes Vinod Dua's daughter

December 06, 2021 15:35

On Saturday, veteran journalist Vinod Dua, passed away in a hospital in New Delhi. For more on that read this.

His daughter, stand-up comic, Mallika Dua, shared this moving post on Instagram, yesterday. If you haven't read it, do:

"There will never be another like you. My first and best friend. My Papaji. Very few live as large and glorious a life as you did. Always up for a good time. Always ready for a challenge. Loved a good fight (laugh emoji). Always there for his children. A self made, lion-hearted legend who roared in rebellion till his last breath. He feared nothing, least of all death. Thank you for being the BEST dad in the world. I'm sure you and mama are eating chapli kebab and discussing "Yeh Mallika itna kyun ladti hai sabse. Kaise manage karegi (laugh emoji)'

"The most courageous, irreverent , compassionate and funny man I know. What a guy. An ordinary boy born in Nabi Karim who took on the high and mighty and won, till the end. Padmashree Vinod Dua. Even at your weakest, you gave Indian Journalism a landmark judgment. Journalists in India can no longer be randomly slapped with a sedition case because Vinod Dua fought that fight for them, as he always has.

"Heaven is just so f*****g lucky, it has my whole entire life. We won't live in fear and grief forever. We will live with pride and gratitude because look at the extraordinary parents we got. I wouldn't trade my destiny for anything. It gave me Vinod and Chinna. Nobody gets double lucky. Bohot Umda (hug emoji)."

The last rites of the pioneering television journalist, who was hospitalised with Covid earlier this year and lost his wife, radiologist Padmavati 'Chinna' Dua, to the virus in June, was performed at the Lodhi crematorium on Sunday.

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