HYDERABAD: Senior journalist and poet Arun Sagar passed away in the early hours of Friday due to cardiac arrest.
He has been suffering with lung disease for the past three years. He was admitted to Prime Hospital at Ameerpet three days ago, where he breathed his last. He started his career with ‘Suprabatham’ magazine and later worked with Andhra Jyothi, TV9, 10 TV, TV5. He was the editor of TV5. He had penned more than 1,000 poems. Ministers Nageshwara Rao, Harish Rao, and others paid respects to Arun Sagar.