Mysore :

Kamalamma Sharada Prasad (92), freedom fighter and wife of veteran journalist and Information Adviser to Mrs. Indira Gandhi and two other Prime Ministers, late H.Y. Sharada Prasad, passed away at a private hospital in New Delhi on Aug. 11 at 6.30 am.

A resident of Paschima Vihar in Delhi, she leaves behind two sons — Ravi Prasad, a Freelance Journalist (Defence) and Sanjeeva Prasad, Professor at IIT, Delhi.

According to H.Y. Mohan Ram, younger brother of Sharada Prasad who too resides in Delhi, many VIPs including Rahul Gandhi (AICC Vice-President), Kapila Vatsyayan (scholar of classical dance) and Sanjya Baru (political commentator) paid their last respects to Kamalamma.

Cremation took place the same day at 3 pm at the crematorium on Lodhi Road, Delhi.

Hailing from Mysore, Kamalamma had participated and was arrested in the Quit India movement of 1942. She was an official interpreter at the Mahatma Gandhi murder trial in 1948.

Kamalamma moved to Delhi in 1957, after marrying her college mate Sharada Prasad.

Speaking to SOM, their family friend Ratna Satyan, wife of noted photo-jounrnalist late T.S. Satyan and a resident of Saraswathipuram in city, said that T.S. Satyan and Sharada Prasad were close associates for over six decades since their college days at Maharaja’s College in Mysore where Kamalamma met her life partner and also while in Delhi. Whenever Sharada Prasad was in Mysore he used to call on the Satyans.

Late Satyan’s daughter Kalpana and son-in-law Gowtham Murthy, who reside in Delhi, too attended the funeral of Kamalamma.

Sharada Prasad’s younger sister Neeraja Achuta Rao, a vocalist, resides at Jayanagar in Mysore.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / August 13th, 2014