He was born on 29 July, 1922 in Pune.īabasaheb Purandare’s personality is a combination of pride about history, researcher’s attitude to check the truth, patience, perseverance, a kind of heaviness, memory etc. In August 2015, he was honored with the Maharashtra Bhushan Award by the Government of Maharashtra.īalwant Moreshwar/Babasaheb Purandare’s native village is Saswad in Pune district. With his eloquent voice and elegant rhetoric, he brought the character of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj before Maharashtra. A special team of doctors had been treating him for the past three days. The doctors treating him said that he was not responding to the treatment due to old age. His condition has been critical for the past three days.

He contracted pneumonia and was placed on a ventilator. After that, however, his health deteriorated.

There, too, for the first two days, he spoke fluently. He was rushed to Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital. When he woke up on the morning of October 26, he lost his balance and suffered a head injury. His body was cremated at Vaikuntha Cemetery in the funeral.īabasaheb had been ill since before Diwali. While the treatment is going on, today he breathed his last on November 15. As his condition worsened, he was admitted to the intensive care unit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also greeted him through a video message.īabasaheb Purandare was admitted to Dinanath Hospital last week due to pneumonia. He received lots of greetings from all walks of life. He was 99 years old & just entered in 100 th year.īalwant Moreshwar Purandare, also known as Babasaheb Purandare, died at Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital in Pune at 5:07 am on Monday 15 th Nov, 2021. Padma Vibhushan, Shivshahir, Maharashtra Bhushan Babasaheb Purandare, author of the book ‘Raja Shivchhatrapati’ and author of the play ‘Jaanata Raja’, who conveyed Shivcharitra to households with his energetic voice, passed away in Pune.

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