O P Sabherwal passes away

Om Prakash Sabherwal, an eminent journalist and author of much publicised 'India's Tryst with the Atom', passed away here today following a brief illness, family members said.

OP, as he was popularly known in the media world, was 90 and is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.

Regarded as an authority on India's nuclear programme and global nuclear issues, Sabherwal was born into a wealthy business family at Ludhiana on April 13, 1923.

After his graduation from Punjab University, Sabherwal moved to Kolkata where he led the undivided communist party's student and youth movement for the freedom of the country.
 

He joined India Press Agency, the Delhi-based news feature and analysis syndicate, as a young reporter in 1959 and went on to become its chief editor in 1980.