Obituary Events in June 1998

4^th Jun

Writer, poet, critic and scholar, Bhagavatula Shankara Sastry, who took the pen name `Arudra', dies in Chennai at 73.

8^th Jun

The Nigerian President, Mr. Sani Abacha, 54, dies in Abuja of a heart attack.

27^th Jun

Mr. Nikhil Chakravartty, journalist and chairman of Prasar Bharati, dies in New Delhi at 84.

Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, Gandhian, Congressman and former Sikkim Governor, dies at 86.

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