Yadunath Dattatray Thatte (Devanagari: यदुनाथ दत्तात्रय थत्ते; 5 October 1922 – 10 May 1998) was a Marathi journalist, editor, biographer, social worker and socialist leader from Maharashtra, India.

Born at Yeola in the Nashik district, Thatte was one of the prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement in Maharashtra. In 1942, he was sentenced to six months imprisonment for participating in the Quit India Movement.

Yadunath Thatte

Thatte was the editor of the Socialist weekly Sadhana () from 1956–1982, and a long-time activist in the Rashtra Seva Dal.

Yadunath Thatte

Besides biographies of Homi Bhabha, Niels Bohr, C. V. Raman, Earnest R. Ford, Satish Chandra Dasgupta, and Jagdish Chandra Basu, he wrote the following books:

Yadunath Thatte

Mastakī Himālaya, Antaraṅgī Aṅgāra (1990) Cār Pharār (1990) Phulatā Nikhārā (1980) Sadānand (1978) Sarahadda Gāndhī (1969) Āpalā Māna, Āpalā Abhimāna (1966) Akshayapātra (1962) Gahina

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1922 births

1998 deaths

20th-century Indian journalists

Indian socialists

Marathi-language writers

People from Nashik district

Marathi politicians

Maharashtra politicians

Indian independence activists from Maharashtra

Journalists from Maharashtra