Achyut Yagnik

Achyut Yagnik (1 February 1946 – 4 August 2023) was an Indian journalist, academic, political analyst and activist based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Early life Yagnik was born on 1 February 1946, in Dharmaj village in Charotar region (now in Anand district of Gujarat). He was a native of Sojitra. From 1970 to 1980, Yagnik worked as a journalist. He worked closely with several poets and writers as well as sociologists and historians during this period. He worked with the Maldhari community of Gir. He worked for the tribals under Vishamata Nirmulan Samiti. He was a Fellow of and Consultant to the United Nations University in 1986-87. He also served as a Fellow of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005-06. Yagnik was cremated in V. S. Antimdam.