Yadunath Dattatray Thatte (Devanagari

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: यदुनाथ दत्तात्रय थत्ते; b. 5 Oct 1922 - 10 May 1998) was a Marathi

Marathi language

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 journalist

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, editor

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, biographer, social worker and socialist

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 leader from Maharashtra

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, India

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Born at Yeola

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Yeola is a town and a municipal council and a taluka headquarters in Nashik District in the Indian state of Maharashtra.Yeola is 82 kilometres from Nasik on Nasik-Aurangabad Highway and 29 kilometres south of Manmad on the Manmad–Ahmednagar road. Yeola is 35 kilometres from...

 in the Nashik district

Nashik district

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, Thatte was one of the prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement

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 in Maharashtra. In 1942, he was sentenced to six months imprisonment for participating in the Quit India Movement

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Thatte was the editor of the Socialist weekly Sadhana

Sadhana (weekly)

Sadhana is a Socialist Marathi weekly publication that was established by Pandurang Sadashiv Sane , a leader of Rashtra Seva Dal, on August 15, 1948. It was edited by Marathi writer Shankar Dattatraya Javdekar from 1950 to 1952. Yadunath Thatte became Sadhanas editor in 1956 and continued to lead...

from 1956–1982, and a long-time activist in the Rashtra Seva Dal.

Besides biographies of Homi Bhabha, Niels Bohr

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, C. V. Raman, Earnest R. Ford, Satish Chandra Dasgupta, and Jagdish Chandra Basu, he wrote the following books:

• Mastakī Himālaya, Antaraṅgī Aṅgāra (1990)
• Cār Pharār (1990)
• Phulatā Nikhārā (1980)
• Sadānand (1978)
• Sarahadda Gāndhī (1969)
• Āpalā Māna, Āpalā Abhimāna (1966)
• Akshayapātra (1962)
• Gahina