C.V. Krishnamurthy, 89, retired Railway official and journalist, died after a prolonged illness in Bangalore on Tuesday.
He had been suffering from dementia for over a year and died of pneumonia.
He joined the Bengal Nagpur Railways in Kolkata in 1940 and rose to become a senior official in the public relations department of the Northern Railway.
He was a frequent contributor to many publications, including Delhi Recorder , Caravan , Udayam , and Andhra Patrika .
He is survived by two sons, V.K. Varadarajan and V.K. Narayanan, who are working with The Hindu group of publications, and four daughters.
