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RIP Gouri Ghosh
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Kolkata: Veteran elocutionist Gouri Ghosh passes away

| @indiablooms | Aug 26, 2021, at 06:50 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Veteran Bengali language elocutionist Gouri Ghosh passed away in a private hospital here Thursday morning, reports said.

She was 83.

Gouri Ghosh, wife of another veteran elocutionist Partha Ghosh, breathed her last at around 8:55 am in a private health facility near EM Bypass, where she was undergoing treatments on ventilator support for the last seven days.

Her health had reportedly deteriorated since Wednesday night.

Gauri Ghosh joined All India Radio as a radio presenter and forged a long association.

Her pairing up with her husband Partha Ghosh for recitation had endeared the Bengali audiences and as they were a toast of the cultural world in the discipline.

The couple is credited for taking Bengali poetry to the homes of Bengal.

Gouri Ghosh had also featured in late filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film Asukh, which was released in 1999. 

Mourning her demise, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, "Her death is a major loss to the cultural world. I offer condolences to Gouri Ghosh's relatives and admirers."

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