Writer Usha Zacharias dead

Usha Zacharias

Usha Zacharias, 51, writer and researcher, died in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday evening after fighting cancer for over a year.

Ms. Zacharias, who had started her career as a journalist in Mumbai, had moved on to academics and was Associate Professor of Communication, Westfield University, U.S. Author of several articles on media in English and Malayalam journals, her early research was on epics on television. The cremation will take place at the electric crematorium here on Tuesday afternoon, family sources said.