Read this morning on the net that Darryl Crasto, a senior sports reporter with the Times of India, passed away yesterday in Mumbai. Darryl covered the World Junior Hockey in July. Besides hockey, he was a specialist writer on motorsports, billiards and snooker and motorsports. He was an ex-colleague at the Free Press Journal, then moved on to Indian Post and later joined the Times of India's new paper, Independent, which folded and he was absorbed by the TOI. He was also a past president of the Sports Journalists Federation of India, and, according to another ex-colleauge, Darryl was president of the Mumbai Press Club. According to this ex-colleague, Darryl got wet two days in Holland, and then on the day when Mumbai was flooded in walked from Bori Bunder to Mazagaon, his mother's house, in deep water. I am he contacted pneumonia, and after ten days or so in two hospitals, he breathed his last yesterday. He leaves behind his wife and two children, the eldest who is in junior college. I was informed that his hospital bills came up to six lakhs for the ten days or so he was in the hospital, and ex-colleagues and friends were trying to raise funds to pay the bills. His two uncles, Joe and John Crasto (both deceased), the later too having started at the Free Press Journal, and both together at the Times, were sports journalist. His older brother, Ivan, too is a sports journalist, also ex-FPR, and now with Rediff.
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