Fw: H-ASIA: Sadanand and Nirmala Bhatkal

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: Sadanand and Nirmala Bhatkal

> H-ASIA
> July 26, 2011
>
> Sadanand and Nirmala Bhatkal
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> From: Frank F. Conlon
>
> This is a brief note to share the news of the passing of two remarkable
> persons known to many scholars of South Asia, especially those whose work
> was conducted in part in Bombay/Mumbai.
>
> Sadanand Bhatkal, publisher (Popular Prakashan; Popular Book Depot),
> intellectual and social activist, passed away early this morning in
> Mumbai. His life partner and collaborator in many causes, as well as
> herself an imaginative and active worker in cultural, social and political
> causes, Nirmala Bhatkal, had died on July 3, after a long illness.
>
> They were good friends who welcomed scholars from all over the world.
> Sadanand's "cabin"--his office on the mezzanine of the old Popular Book
> Depot on Lamington Road--was, for many years, a place of meeting and
> conversation, of high intellectual exchange and worldly gossip. Nirmala
> and Sadanand were idealists who always sought, at every level, to achieve
> a better world. Only illness intervened to cut off that quest.
>
> Frank Conlon
>
> Frank F. Conlon
> Professor Emeritus University of Washington
> Co-editor, H-ASIA
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