Veteran journalist Kalyan K. Chaudhuri died on 2 September 2011. He was a Special Correspondent for Frontline magazine from August 1991 till retirement in December 2003. Chaudhuri was known for his informed journalistic writing.
As a journalist he focussed primarily on political developments in the eastern region. He was president of the Indian Journalists' Association in 1988.
He was a man of varied interest. He translated The Scalpel, the Sword, the story of Doctor Norman Bethune, by Ted Allan and Sydney Gordon; and Platero Y Yo, a prose work of Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, into Bengali. Along with his wife, Kajal Chaudhuri, he had founded the theatre group Bhoomika in the late-1970s.
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