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Astro' Mohan bags international award for Mangalore air crash photo

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May 23, 2012

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Mangalore, May 23: Renowned photojournalist K H Mohan, popularly known as 'Astro' Mohan, has bagged the International JPS gold medal in Jodhana Photojournalist Society, Jodhpur.

'Astro' Mohan is a senior news photographer of Udayavani, a widely read Kannada daily newspaper published from Manipal, and is also the President of Udupi Press Photographers Association.

The picture “Last Journey” depicting the Mangalore air crash won the international award. This is the first international award for the Udupi based photographer.

Mr Mohan has already bagged several national and state level awards.

An incredibly versatile person with a rare blend of multiple talents, Mr Mohan is also a magician, astrologer, palmist, orator, artiste, art critic and to top it a prudent organiser of shows. It was his intense interest in astrology which led to him being nicknamed as 'Astro' and now widely called by this nickname.

The coastal city of Mangalore had witnessed India's third deadliest aviation disaster in its civil aviation history on May 22, 2010, when an Air India Express flight IX812 from Dubai to Mangalore overshot the runway on landing, fell over the cliff, split into two and ended up in a ball of inferno, charring 152 passengers and six crew members on board.

The international award was conferred on Mr Mohan during the second anniversary of this tragedy.

"The Last Journey"

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