Eminent cartoonist Kishore Rath passed away at the Capital Hospital here on Monday morning. He was 58.
Rath had complained of uneasiness in breathing, following which he was taken to the hospital. He suffered heart attack and died while undergoing treatment, reports said. Rath became a household name in Odisha for his cartoon column ‘Katakhya’ published in Odia daily ‘Sambad’, for which he was working since the late 1980s. He was a graduate in Fine Arts from the Khallikote Arts College. A pall of gloom descended on the media fraternity after the demise of Rath. Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, Chairman, Sambad Group, expressed grief over Rath’s death.