Senior journalist Pradeep Tiwari passes away
Senior journalist Pradeep Tiwari, former editor of the Delhi edition of The Pioneer Hindi, died of a cardiac arrest on Sunday afternoon, bringing to a close a journalistic career that stretched across some of North India’s most prominent Hindi newsrooms over more than three decades. He was 57.
Family members said Tiwari collapsed at around 12.30 pm while taking a bath at his residence in Vaishali, Ghaziabad. He was rushed to Paras Hospital, where doctors declared him dead. He was cremated later in the evening at Hindon Moksh Sthali at around 5.30 pm. His elder daughter, Prakriti Tiwari, lit the funeral pyre in the presence of family members, friends and colleagues.
According to relatives, Tiwari had been battling prolonged health complications since the Covid pandemic. In 2021, he was hit by coronavirus infection twice during the devastating second wave period, and the illness caused severe damage to his lungs.
Though he recovered from the immediate infection, family members said he never fully regained stable health and had continued to suffer recurring medical problems over the past several years. Sunday’s cardiac arrest, they said, came suddenly.
He began his career in the 1990s with Devgiri, a Hindi newspaper published from Aurangabad in Maharashtra, entering the profession at a time when Hindi print journalism was expanding rapidly beyond traditional political reporting into district, crime and civic beats.
From there, he moved through a series of significant news organisations and built a long editorial presence in Delhi and western Uttar Pradesh. Over the years, he worked with JVG Times in Delhi, Amar Ujala in Meerut and later Delhi, Hindustan in Delhi, and subsequently with The Pioneer Hindi, where he served as editor of the Delhi edition.
