Eminent writer Mannu Bhandari passes away

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Updated At : 11:28 AM Nov 16, 2021 IST

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New Delhi, November 15

Noted writer Mannu Bhandari passed away this afternoon after hospitalisation at a Gurugram hospital. She was 90.

Family sources confirmed the demise of the acclaimed Hindi writer who had been suffering from age-related ailments and was hospitalised for a week.

Bhandari was the wife of illustrious Hindi fiction writer Rajendra Yadav and was best known for her novels ‘Aapka Bunty’ and ‘Mahabhoj’. The well-received 1974 Hindi feature film ‘Rajnigandha’ was an adaptation from her novel ‘Yahi Sach Hai’.

Born on April 3, 1931, in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhanpura and primarily raised in Ajmer, Bhandari belonged to a renowned family. Her father produced one of the first English to Hindi and English to Marathi dictionaries. She was living in Gurugram with her daughter Rachna Yadav.

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