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Jharkhand: Jamshedpur’s Utkal Association condoles sudden demise of XLRI professor Ashish Pani

KUMUD JENAMANI   Advertisement Jamshedpur, Feb 28: Office-bearers and executive members of Utkal Association gathered at the association’s hall to condole the…

Jharkhand: Jamshedpur’s Utkal Association condoles sudden demise of XLRI professor Ashish Pani

File picture of Prof Ashish Pani

KUMUD JENAMANI

 

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Jamshedpur, Feb 28: Office-bearers and executive members of Utkal Association gathered at the association’s hall to condole the sudden demise of Prof. Ashish Pani on Tuesday evening.

A resident of Jamshedpur, Prof Pani (52) who was a member of XLRI’s teaching faculty died of a cardiac arrest at his home town Baripada in Odisha on Sunday.

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The death of the premier B-school professor sent a shock wave in the academic circle and also in the Odiya community here in the steel city.

While expressing his condolence, senior advocate and Utkal Association trustee Manoranjan Dash observed the academic society to have lost a jewel in the passing away of Prof. Pani.

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“The untimely demise of Ashish Pani is an unrepairable loss of the society, especially of the Odiya community.  May Almighty God give enough strength to the bereaved family members to overcome the situation, ” said Dash.

Prominent neurosurgeon Simanta Raul who attended the meeting said Prof Pani had a versatile personality.

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“Ashish Pani was a soft-spoken and down-to-earth person despite being an excellent professor. He was equally a spiritual person, ” observed Dr Raul.

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Advocate Rabindranath Satpathy said that he had got a chance to talk with Prof Pani for a brief period and could know the kind of person he was.

Utkal Association “s fraternity during a meeting for condoling the death of XLRI professor, Ashish Pani at the association’s conference hall in Sakchi

Badal Bhuyan, vice-president, Utkal Association said Prof Pani had an affinity with the Utkal Association.

“Being a professor posted in as significant as XLRI, we had a sense of well-being among our association fraternity. Now things will not be the same anymore,” observed Bhuyan.

Prof Sanjay Patro, vice-president, Utkal Association and also din (Academy) XLRI, observed that Prof Pani was very popular among the students for his amicable nature.

Others who spoke on the occasion include Ashok Samanta, Manoranjan Prasayat, Pabitra Mohan Jena, Somendra Bhuyan, Subrata Das, Prabhat Mohapatra, Sukanta Das, Basanta Mohanty, Niranjan Nayak and Paritosh Giri.

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