Narayan Surve, who died on August 16, 2010 at 84 years, was a celebrated Marathi poet.
Mumbai:
A thief was overcome with regret after realising that the home he stole valuables from belonged to a well-known Marathi author and returned the property he had stolen, police stated right this moment.
The home from the place the thief stole the property, together with an LED TV, belonged to Narayan Surve and is positioned at Neral in Raigad district, police stated.
Surve, who died on August 16, 2010 at 84 years, was a celebrated Marathi poet and social activist. Born in Mumbai, his poems vividly depicted the struggles of the city working class.
Surve’s daughter Sujata and her husband Ganesh Ghare now dwell in the home. They’d gone to Virar to be with their son and their home was locked for 10 days.
It was throughout this era that the thief entered the home and stole just a few issues, together with the LED TV set. When he returned to choose up just a few extra articles the subsequent day, he seen Surve’s photograph and memorabilia in a room.
The thief was stuffed with regret and returned all of the gadgets he had picked up. He pasted a small observe on a wall, asking for the proprietor’s forgiveness for stealing from such a terrific literary determine’s home.
Sujata and her husband discovered the observe once they returned from Virar on Sunday, police inspector Shivaji Dhavle of Neral police station stated.
Police are finishing up additional investigation based mostly on the fingerprints discovered on the TV set and different articles, he stated.
Earlier than Surve turned a well-known Marathi poet, he had grown up as an orphan on the streets of Mumbai, then survived by working as a home assist, a dishwasher in a lodge, a babysitter, a pet-dog caretaker, a milk supply boy, a porter and a mill hand.
Via his poetry, Surve glorified labour and challenged the established literary norms in Marathi literature.
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