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India's former top sports official Ramanujan no more

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IANS New Delhi

One of India's erstwhile top sports administrators and founding member of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) T.D. Ranga Ramanujan passed away Monday at the age of 95.

He died at his son's place in Hyderabad in the wee hours of Monday.

TDR, as he is fondly remembered in the table tennis fraternity, is survived by his wife and five children.

Ranga was instrumental in organising two World Table Tennis Championships in Mumbai (1952) and Kolkata (1975).

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First Published: Oct 14 2013 | 6:18 PM IST

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