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| birth_date = 1955<br />
| birth_place = [[Sarupathar]], [[Assam]]<br />
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'''Gauri Shankar Kalita''' (1955 - 9 June 2010 ) was an [[India]]n journalist.<br />
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Kalita was one of the popular journalists in the north-eastern state of [[Assam]]. Born in a [[kshatriya]] family, he graduated from the Cotton College of Guwahati.<ref name="Tribute to Gauri Sankar Kalita">D N Chakravarty, [http://www.sentinelassam.com/state1/story.php?sec=2&subsec=2&id=39345&dtP=2011-06-24&ppr=1 Tribute to Gauri Sankar Kalita] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928211112/http://www.sentinelassam.com/state1/story.php?sec=2&subsec=2&id=39345&dtP=2011-06-24&ppr=1 |date=28 September 2011 }}, in [[The Sentinel (Gauhati)|The Sentinel]]</ref><br />
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In his youth he studied [[Marxism]] and in 1978 was the only Indian representative at the International Youth Conference in [[Ulaanbaatar]], with his speech broadcast on Soviet television.<ref name="Tribute to Gauri Sankar Kalita"/><br />
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An expert on Assam, and of north-east Indian problems, his mother tongue was Assamese though he had a deep knowledge of English. Kalita worked for one of the main daily newspapers of the north-eastern region, ''[[The Sentinel (Gauhati)|The Sentinel]]'', where he started his career,<ref name="Meri_News 2010">[http://www.merinews.com/article/senior-journalist-gauri-shankar-kalita-passes-away/15822878.shtml Senior journalist Gauri Shankar Kalita passes away] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031050437/http://www.merinews.com/article/senior-journalist-gauri-shankar-kalita-passes-away/15822878.shtml |date=31 October 2010 }}, in Meri News, 13 June 2010</ref> and was the editor of the [[Arunachal Pradesh]] and [[Meghalaya]] editions.<ref>[http://www.sentinelassam.com/ghy_city/story.php?sec=1&subsec=0&id=77680&dtP=2011-07-07&ppr=1#77680 Veteran journalist Gauri Shankar Kalita remembered] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928211126/http://www.sentinelassam.com/ghy_city/story.php?sec=1&subsec=0&id=77680&dtP=2011-07-07&ppr=1 |date=28 September 2011 }}, in [[The Sentinel (Gauhati)|The Sentinel]], 9 June 2011</ref> He also was the Editor of ''[[The North East Times]]'' and of the main Assamese-language newspaper ''[[Janasadharan]]''.<ref name="Meri_News 2010"/><br />
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He died in Guwahati on 9 June 2010 after a cardiac arrest.<ref name="Meri_News 2010"/><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120327012243/http://www.mediamanch.com/Mediamanch/Site/Catevar.php?Catevar=2&Nid=1665 जाने माने पत्रकार गौरी शंकर कलिता का निधन] in MediaManch, 10 giugno 2010</ref><br />
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[[Tarun Gogoi]], the Chief Minister of [[Assam]] , said that "Kalita had an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the problems plaguing the State and the region and created public opinion through his writings. The void created by his death will be hard to fill".<ref name="Senior scribe GS Kalita passes away">[http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jun1010/city07 Senior scribe GS Kalita passes away], in [[The Assam Tribune]], 9 June 2010</ref><br />
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His wife, Garima Kalita, is a retired Head of The Department of Philosophy of Udalguri College, Assam, and is currently settled at Guwahati<ref name="Senior scribe GS Kalita passes away"/><br />
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