: अरुण साधु) (b. 1942) is a writer and a freelance journalist from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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, India

India

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. He has written in Marathi

Marathi language

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

, Hindi

Hindi

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, and English

English language

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In his earlier career, Sadhu worked in different capacities on the staff of a few national English newspapers and then served for six years as a professor and the head of the Department of Communication and Journalism at Pune University.

Sadhu has won several awards for his literary work. He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

 at Nagpur

Nagpur

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 in 2007.

2008 Sammelan

Sadhu, the outgoing president of 2008 Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held in Sangli

Sangli

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 left its inaugural function, protesting that Marathi writers who were sitting on the Sammelan platform along with some politicians were being "overshadowed" by the politicians by way of curtailment of time slots in the inaugural schedule for the writers on the platform through presidential protocol.

Authorship

Sadhu has written several novels, collections of his short stories, and a few books on contemporary history as well as written editorials opposing violence

Violence

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. The following is a partial list of his books.

• Maharashtra
• Kakasaheb Gadgil (In English and Hindi)
• Fidel, Che Ani Kranti
• Dragon Jaga Jhalyawar
• Mukhawata
• Simhasan
• Mumbai Dinank (1973) (and also its Hindi version Bambai Dinank)
• Padgam (a play) (1988)
• Shodhyatra
• Sphot
• Bahishkrut
• Trishanku
• Glanirbhavati Bharat (short stories)
• Tisari Kranti

The script of the movie Simhasan, which was made in the 1970s, was adapted from Sadhu's novels Mumbai Dinank and Simhasan.

Along with Sooni Taraporevala and Daya Pawar, Sadhu was a co-script writer of the movie Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (2000).