Noted litterateur and Padma Shri awardee N.D. Mahanor, known as Maharashtra’s ‘nature poet’, passed away on August 3 at a private hospital in Pune, aged 80.
He had been admitted to the city’s Ruby Hall Clinic for the past few days after suffering from a kidney ailment, sources said.
A versatile literary figure who was also a progressive farmer, Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor, affectionately known as ‘Na Dho’, was an acclaimed novelist, songwriter and lyricist besides stamping his authority as a nature poet par excellence.
