Kolkata: Renowned historian Hari Shankar Vasudevan loses battle to Covid-19
Kolkata/IBNS: Well known historian Hari Shankar Vasudevan, who had tested positive for Covid-19, passed away in a Kolkata hospital in the wee hours of Sunday, reports said.
The 68-year-old historian-professor, who was a resident of Salt Lake CD Block, was admitted to a private health facility near his home on May 4 with high fever and later on May 6, his Covid test report came positive.
Hari Shankar Vasudevan was shifted on ventilation on May 5 with severe breathing difficulties and he was declared dead at around 1 am. on Sunday.
Doctors in the hospital said that the senior historian had comorbidities too.
Mourning his demise, India's former culture secretary and chairman of Board of Governors at Centre For Studies In Social Sciences Jawhar Sircar posted on Facebook: "Smiling — that’s how we will always remember him. A perfect gentleman and a soothing countenance."
Vasudevan was a professor of history in Calcutta University and Chairman of Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata.
He was also a former director of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and West Bengal State Archives.
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