Kohima Press Club bids adieu to associate member

Our Correspondent
Kohima, Sept. 1 (EMN): Kohima Press Club (KPC) on Monday bade adieu to its associate member and deputy director of All India Radio, Kohima, Shahu Patole (IIS), who has been transferred to Mumbai.

KPC executive members led by its president Alice Yhoshü met Patole to bid him farewell at his office, AIR station in Kohima and handed a token on behalf of the club.

Patole who has been transferred to Mumbai as the deputy director of News Doordarshan, Mumbai, will be leaving Kohima on September 3.

Yhoshü said Patole who has been a very close friend of the club “will be missed”. She hoped that he would be an ambassador of their small fraternity of journalists and Nagaland wherever he is posted.

Speaking to Eastern Mirror, Patole said he is transferred to Mumbai after serving three years in All India Radio, Kohima. He said he was “very happy” during his short stay in Nagaland and is going away with lots of fond memories.

He assured to keep in touch with the club while looking forward to building bridges between KPC and Mumbai Press Club.

Patole also disclosed that he is writing a book on socio-economy, before and after the advent of Christianity of Nagaland in Marathi, his mother tongue.

“I don’t want to leave Nagaland but I am obligated to go,” he said.

As he writes articles about the culture of Nagas and its people, his friends back at Maharashtra have started calling him “Naga Shahu,” Patole shared.