Award-Winning DD Anchor Gitanjali Aiyar Passes Away
Gitanjali Aiyar, one of India’s first English female news presenters on national broadcaster Doordarshan, passed away. Aiyar is survived by a son and daughter Pallavi Aiyar, who is also an award-winning journalist.
She joined Doordarshan in 1971 after graduating from Kolkata's Loreto College and was named best anchor four times. In 1989, she received the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award for Outstanding Women. She was also a diploma holder from the National School of Drama (NSD) Apart from presenting news programmes, she had also been a popular face in several print advertisements and even acted in Sridhar Kshirsagar’s TV drama ‘Khandaan’. In her decades-long illustrious career, she was also associated with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
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