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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Writer Meenakshi Mukherjee dead

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Eminent writer and Sahitya Akademi winner Meenakshi Mukherjee died here Wednesday.

She was 72. Mukherjee, a professor at the University of Hyderabad, fainted and collapsed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) here while preparing to board a flight to New Delhi, where she was to release one of her books.

"She was travelling alone and was to board an Indigo Airlines flight to Delhi. She fainted at Gate 22 and was rushed to Apollo Medical Centre at the airport, where she was declared dead," an airport spokesman said. Her relatives, who came to see her off, were still at the airport when she collapsed and was rushed to the medical centre, he said.

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