Summary:
79-year-old Dipankar Basu, eminent educationist, breathed his last at a private nursing home in Kolkata in the wee hours of Friday. Prof Basu spent his entire life in Darjeeling, teaching generations of youths and was also a career counselor. He loved Darjeeling and her people. After retirement in the early 2000s, Basu served as the honorary director of Career Information Counseling and Coaching Center (CICACC.) Such was his love for teaching and counseling," stated Amar Rai, former MLA, Darjeeling and also Basu's colleague..