Sarod Maestro Pandit Rajeev Taranath no more
Mysuru: Renowned Sarod player Pandit Rajeev Taranath breathed his last at Manipal Hospital in Mysuru on Tuesday evening. He was 93 years old.
About a month ago, Rajeev Taranath had fell at his home near Panchamantra Road in Kuvempu Nagar. As he had sustained a broken thigh bone injury in the accident, he had been hospitalized.
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The funeral visitation is arranged from 9 am to 12 pm in the musician’s home in Kuvempu Nagar. It will be followed by the final rites, sources close to the family stated.
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Ruskin Bond hospitalised in Dehradun due to leg problem
Dehradun (PTI): Author Ruskin Bond has been admitted to a hospital in Dehradun due to a leg problem, a close friend of the writer said here on Sunday.
After visiting Bond at the hospital, well-known Dehradun-based publisher Upendra Arora said the elderly author was unable to walk properly, following which he was admitted to a private hospital here on Saturday.
The 91-year-old Bond, a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, lives in the Landour area of Mussoorie.
Arora said Bond is undergoing physiotherapy under medical supervision and is expected to be discharged from the hospital in two to three days.
"There is nothing serious," he said.
Bond has written more than 500 short stories, essays and novels, of which 69 books are for children.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra.
