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.
Eugene Correia
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