Dilip Ganguly, a veteran AP newsman best-known for extensive coverage during
the 1991 Iraq War, died Sunday, July 29, 2007, in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta)
India.

He had taken charge of the Kolkata bureau in India in April, after a covering
Sri Lanka for a decade. From the AP obit:

"Dilip Ganguly, whose 21-year career at The Associated Press saw him report
from Baghdad during the Gulf War, on the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and
on stories across South Asia, died on Sunday. He was 57.
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Among the high-profile assignments Ganguly undertook - and the one he was most
proud of - was covering Baghdad at the start of the Gulf War in 1991."

Arul Louis, an editor with the New York Daily News, and former colleague,
shared his thoughts on Ganguly with SAJAforum:
"Dilip Ganguly was the quintessential journalist-adventurer: Always looking to
get into places where everyone else was trying to get out of."

Read Arul's touching, funny, informative obit and contribute any recollections
you may have of Dilip and his work at