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RamaKant was born in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh.
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He dropped out of Allahabad University in 1951 where he had been selected for the hockey nationals as standby. He migrated to Kolkata and joined Indian Airlines leveraging his hockey skills. He switched to journalism as his profession where he could expose the loopholes in Indian sports bodies.
As a journalist he worked with Aaj newspaper in Banaras, Maya in Allahabad.
He came to Delhi to work with Janyug newspaper and settled there. Afterwards, he worked with the Soviet Information Centre as joint editor of Soviet Bhumi, the Hindi magazine published by the Soviet embassy.
He worked with Soviet Bhumi until 1983, when he took a voluntary retirement to write full time. He also intended to publish a weekly newspaper from Sadatpur on the outskirts of Delhi.
The newspaper Krasaad came out in 1987.
He died in Delhi on 6 September 1991.
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