Veteran journalist-author-columnist Shirish Kanekar handed away this afternoon because of coronary heart assault at a hospital, his shut good friend and journalist Arun Puranik mentioned.

Kanekar was 80.

”He was feeling unwell, he was discovering it tough to breathe so he was instantly taken to Hinduja hospital within the morning. He handed away at round 12.30pm on the hospital because of coronary heart assault,” Puranik informed PTI.

Kanekar labored at Marathi and English language publications like Loksatta, Indian Express, Samana, and Free Press Journal. His assortment of tales ‘Lagaon Batti’ was awarded the Maharashtra Literary Parishad Award for Best Comedy.

He was identified for his books on cricket, Bollywood films equivalent to “Nut Bolt Bolpat”, “Kanekari”, “Cricket Vedh”, amongst others.

Kanekar is survived by spouse and two youngsters.

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