Allen Mendonca Prominant journalist dead
Posted on Sep 29, 2009
Allen Mendonca the Prominant journalist died in sleep on Sunday night. Allen J Mendonca had worked for leading newspapers including The Indian Express and The Times of India. Allen Mendonca is survived by his wife Sandhya Mendonca and son Aditya Mendonca.
The cremation of Allen Mendonca will take place at the St Patrick’s church on Thursday at 3 pm.
Allen Mendonca in a career spanning two decades covered crime, politics and information technology among other issues. Allen Mendonca was cofounder of Raintree media which is a media and communications outsourcing firm.
You can pay your tribute to Allen Mendonca by writing in the comments below.
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Dear all,
As a colleague of Allen’s, it feels comforting to read this post and the comments. Allen truly amazed, inspired and encouraged all of us at several occasions. He will be missed tremendously.
We at Explocity, (where Allen was working) have set-up a Blog as a tribute / memorial / condolence register for everyone who wishes to leave a message for Allen’s friends and family. The link is: http://inmemoryofallenmendonca.wordpress.com/
Thank you all again.
September 29th, 2009
Mr. Allen Mendonca was an excellent friendly, and an encouraging human being. Despite his successes and fame, he never breathed any attitude which he could have so easily taken on. He was always present at various events, and would be easily recognized, and people would flock towards him. I have known him for a while. It has always been wonderful interacting with him, at various levels. He has written about us in the Times, many a time. A very humble man, for his fame. May his soul rest in peace, and may his family have the strength to bear the loss of a wonderful member.
October 2nd, 2009
I was Allen’s class mate in St. Joseph’s college, Bangalore, in PUC, 1976 – 1978. He was a real nice person. He had sung the song “Rhinestone cowboy” strumming on his guitar, on one of the occassions in college. He had written down the lyrics of the song for me on my request. I am unfortunate I never met him after passing out of PUC. I heard of him passing away when Rohit Barker mentioned that on Radio Indigo and I confirmed it was the same person later, on seeing his picture in the news paper. He was a wonderful person.
February 21st, 2010