Diagnosed in July, gone by September. Fast.
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Dr Niharranjan Das was an Indian paediatrician who practised in Agartala, the capital of the north-eastern state of Tripura. Colleagues and patients knew him as a soft-spoken children's doctor whose calm manner and humane approach made anxious families feel heard. He died on 28 September 2026 after a brief battle…
Dr Niharranjan Das was an Indian paediatrician who practised in Agartala, the capital of the north-eastern state of Tripura. Colleagues and patients knew him as a soft-spoken children's doctor whose calm manner and humane approach made anxious families feel heard. He died on 28 September 2026 after a brief battle with cancer, a loss that was widely mourned across Tripura's medical fraternity.
Public reporting on his early years is limited. What is clear is that he completed his MBBS at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) and went on to take an MD in Paediatrics. That training prepared him for a career focused on the care of infants and children in a state where specialist paediatric services have long been thinner than in larger Indian cities. Over years of practice he built the kind of local reputation that spreads by word of mouth: parents recommended him to other parents because he combined clinical competence with patience and empathy.
In Agartala and across Tripura, families who could not easily travel to Kolkata, Guwahati or Delhi for specialist children's care relied on physicians like Dr Das. Colleagues later recalled his gentle demeanour and approachable nature, saying he treated professional commitment and kindness as parts of the same vocation. Those tributes, published after his death by Tripura Info and Medical Dialogues, repeatedly returned to the same qualities: he was soft-spoken, dedicated to his young patients, and respected by the families who brought them to him.
According to Tripura Info, Dr Das was diagnosed with cancer in July 2026. The disease progressed rapidly despite treatment and medical care. His death within a short period after the diagnosis came as a shock to those who knew him. Medical Dialogues reported that the Tripura medical fraternity mourned a paediatrician whose humane approach and calm manner had earned the affection of colleagues, patients and their families.
Readers should not confuse him with Dr Nihar Ranjan Dash, a gastrointestinal surgeon and liver transplant specialist associated with AIIMS in New Delhi, who is a different, living person. The similarity of names has caused occasional mix-ups online. Dr Niharranjan Das of Tripura is remembered for paediatric practice in Agartala and for the quiet professional example colleagues described after his death. Funeral and family details had not been widely reported at the time of writing.
Biography adapted from Tripura Info, Medical Dialogues, and contemporary news reports.
