Eminent painter and former Trinamool MP Jogen Chowdhury dies at 87

Eminent painter Jogen Chowdhury died at a hospital in Kolkata on Sunday morning following a battle with a rare blood cancer. Chowdhury, a former TMC MP, was 87. He had been suffering from a myeloproliferative neoplasm, a rare type of blood cancer, for the past 14 months and had been receiving chemotherapy, the Ruby General Hospital said in a statement. He was admitted to the private hospital in southeast Kolkata on October 16 after falling ill, and breathed his last at 10.15 am, it said. "It is