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Shastri Athavale dead

Mumbai Oct. 25. Founder of Swadhyaya Parivar, social thinker and philosopher, Pandurang Shastri Athavale, died at his residence today following a heart attack.

Mr. Athavale, 84, who received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 1996 and the $ 1.2 million Templeton Award in 1997, is survived by his wife and daughter.

Founder of the `Swadhyaya Movement' (to discover inner-self), Mr. Athavale is revered in Maharashtra and Gujarat as a modern day thinker and social reformer. Mr. Athavale, a recipient of Padma Vibhushan, strived throughout his life to fight inequality, casteism and vices among the cultivating and fishermen communities in the two States.

The Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has expressed his deep grief over the demise of Mr. Athavale, describing him as one of the foremost spiritually-oriented reformers. — PTI

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