M.G. Vaidhya in April 2016. | Photo Credit:
S. Sudarshan
A former chief editor of the city-based pro-RSS Marathi daily Tarun Bharat, Vaidya became a member of the RSS in 1943 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue and the organisation’s first spokesperson Madhav Govind Vaidya died here on Saturday after a brief illness, his family said. He was 97. Vaidya, who had recovered from coronavirus infection, died at a private hospital in Nagpur, his grandson Vishnu Vaidya told
PTI. The last rites will be held on Sunday. Vaidya, who became a volunteer of the RSS almost two decades after the organisation was set up, had seen it all during his eight decade-old association with it: the three bans, isolation, internal conflicts over joining politics, ferment and resurgence, changing power equations with the BJP, and the latter’s storming to power at the Centre in 2014.
Senior journalist Ashok Yalagi passes away
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Ashok Yalagi, senior journalist, Marathi writer, theatre person and cultural personality, died in Belagavi on Thursday. He was 82.
He was the founder Editor of Avaliya, a Marathi weekly. He served for long as the chief reporter of Tarun Bharat, a Maratha daily.
A postgraduate in Marathi literature, he continued to write fiction and non-fiction in various newspapers. He later headed the cultural wing of the Lokamanya trust. He served as the honorary president of the Lokamanya Library and Vangmaya Charcha Mandal, a cultural club.
Several of his relatives were involved in the Goa liberation struggle and a unified Maharashtra movement. His parents and uncles were jailed in the Goa liberation movement.