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Obituary: Ranjit De Silva

Ranjit De Silva, a Reuters journalist in Washington in the 1970s, died on 1 January 2015.

Born in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, De Silva worked for UPI in its Annapolis bureau before joining Reuters in the US capital.​

After Reuters he returned to UPI before joining the US government where he became director of public affairs of the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

Later in his career he returned to Sri Lanka and served as head of government public affairs. He left Colombo to return to the United States for a kidney transplant. ■