Journalists Mourn Danish Siddiqui's Death : Indian journalist Danish Siddiqui, working with Reuters as a photo journalist, has been killed in an attack by the Taliban in Spin Boldak district, Kandahar. He was in Afghanistan covering the tense situation in Kandahar for the last few days.
Here's his last tweet. Journalists Mourn Danish Siddiqui's Death
A lot of female journalists also took to social media to mourn the loss of the Pulitzer award winner.
Nandhini Vellaisamy, journalist with Tamil The Hindu, praised the journalist for the stellar work he did in capturing photos that expressed the agony of human soul.
Author, researcher and ex-journalist Kota Neelima also paid tribute to the photo journalist.
Shiba Kurian, journalist with the News Minute, shared some of his work and interview from her twitter handle. Danish had mentioned in the interview that he enjoyed capturing human face of a breaking story the most.
Journalist Rituparna Chatterjee called him an exceptional journalist adding that his death was a huge loss to the profession of journalism.
Sreyashi Dey, senior journalist at Times Now, expressed her sadness at the fact that he died just two days after tweeting about the tensed situation in Kandahar in Afghanistan.
Radhika Santhanam, Journalist at The Hindu, tweeted that he was a talented journalist who could tell a thousand stories through his frames.
Siddiqui and his colleague Adnan Abidi were the first Indians to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. They had documented the Rohingya refugee crisis. Besides this, he has received adulation for his coverage of 2020 Delhi riots, the Covid-19 pandemic, the Nepal earthquake in 2015 and the Battle of Mosul in 2016-17.
His work has been widely published in magazines and newspapers like National Geographic Magazine, New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine among others.
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