Mumbai: It is with a heavy heart and profound grief that the Indian Television Dot Com team shares the news of the untimely demise of our colleague Ravi Soni on 10 April. He was all of 28 years old.  

“Like a rainbow, fading in the twinkling of an eye, gone too soon…
Like a comet, blazing 'cross the evening sky, gone too soon…,” go the lyrics of a song "Gone Too Soon" by Michael Jackson.

The words seem fitting to describe the passing away of a young, promising, liked-by-all colleague.

Having joined ITV as production executive while still fresh out of college, Ravi would have completed exactly seven years in the organisation on this 13 April. Just three days short of his tragic, premature death.

“To work with diligence and commitment, to provide possible solutions for issues that arise,” Ravi’s LinkedIn bio read.  

And providing solutions he did. To every single production challenge or technical snag that arose, he had a single-word, swift response: “Done”

And the issue was sorted, just like that - without any pressures mounting, temperatures rising or war-of-words in the heat of deadlines to be met in an online news organisation. It was all in a day’s work for Soni.

Ravi’s responsibilities included managing archived content for the website, migrating content to the server, preparing newsletters, editing images and maintaining an image library for the site. He was also involved in the building, maintaining and updating of web-based applications. He worked closely with the creative and editorial teams at ITV and could always be counted upon to save the day when it came to any glitches or last-minute changes while publishing content on the website.

Associated with the publication’s web production and day-to-day running, he was known to be a self-motivated, industrious, and proactive worker who ensured news was uploaded, updated and brought to readers instantaneously.

To his colleagues, he was a gentle, cheerful, ever-helpful, and noble soul who loved cricket passionately. Tragically, it is also on the cricket field that he met his end, during a match on Sunday.

All of us at IndianTelevision and everyone who has known him will miss him deeply and pray that his soul rest in peace. In this sorrowful time, we also extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and loved ones.

Gone too soon…