Former The Hindu journalist Muralidhar Reddy no more

B. Muralidhar Reddy, who worked for nearly three decades in The Hindu’s Delhi Bureau and served as the newspaper’s Pakistan and Sri Lanka correspondent, passed away at a Delhi hospital on Saturday night after battling multiple health complications.

A widely respected journalist, Mr. Reddy, 64, started as a city reporter when The Hindu launched its Delhi edition in the 1980s. As a political correspondent, he covered many major events for the newspaper. He also reported the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992.

In 2000, The Hindu posted him to Islamabad as its Pakistan correspondent and Colombo as its Sri Lanka correspondent.

An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Mr. Reddy worked with Mainstream and National Herald before joining The Hindu.