Prominent sports journalist and analyst Revelli Narendar died in KIMS hospital on Wednesday morning following brief illness. He was 49.
Narendar belonging to Ragampet under Choppadandi mandal of Karimnagar district started his journalistic career in 1986 by joining a daily “Jeeva Gadda” published from Karimnagar. Later, he moved to Hyderabad and worked in various newspapers and TV channels. Narendar’s wife Usha is also a journalist.
On hearing the tragic news, Indian Journalists Union secretary general Devulapalli Amar, Press Council of India member K Amarnath, Visalandhra Editor K. Srinivas Reddy, APUWJ president and general secretary D Somasundar and Y Narendar Redy respectively, secretary K. Satyanarayana, IJU national council member Dimili Achyuta Rao, Paidi Lakshmana Rao and others expressed grief over Narendar’s early demise and conveyed their condolences to the bereaved family. (NSS)