Veteran Marathi journalist, writer Arun Sadhu passes away

Sadhu worked with several newspapers, wrote various novels in Hindi, English and Marathi and was also a recipient of the Sahitya Academy award.

Noted writer Arun Sadhu, who straddled the worlds of literature and journalism with equal elan, passed away early on Monday at a Mumbai hospital following a heart condition.

Arun Sadhu was suffering from a heart disease and passed away at Sion Hospital in Mumbai on Monday.

He was 76.

Sadhu breathed his last at the Sion Hospital, where he was admitted on Sunday for a heart ailment. He was in a critical condition and put on ventilator support in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), hospital sources said.

“He was suffering from cardio myopathy,” Dr. Jayshree Mondkar, dean-in-charge of the hospital, said.

He was known for his work in Mumbai Dinank, which was his first novel, and the book Simhasan, which was adapted into a Marathi film.

Sadhu, who worked with several newspapers, also wrote various novels in Hindi, English and Marathi for which he received a Sahitya Akademi award.

He was conferred with the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad, N C Kelkar and Acharya Atre awards also.

The veteran scribe wrote on the rise of Shiv Sena, the Vietnam war and the Chinese revolution, besides several short stories.