About Babu Bharadwaj
Lived 1948 – 2016 (aged 68). Babu Bharadwaj was a journalist.
Babu Bharadwaj (1948–2016) was a Malayalam-language writer and journalist from Kerala, India.
Life Born in Chemancheri, Calicut as the son of M. R. Vijayaraghavan and K. P. Bhavani, Bharadwaj studied at Poyilkavu High School and Malabar Christian College, Calicut and Government Engineering College, Trichur.
A civil engineer by profession, he worked in Saudi Arabia for a long time and many of his literary works focused on the lives of Indian expatriates in the Persian Gulf region. He won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel for Kalapangalkkoru Grihapadam (2006). His other works include Pravasiyude Kurippukal, Shavaghoshayathra, Puppet Theatre, Pravasiyude Vazhiyambalangal, Panchakalyani and Adrushya Nagarangal. He also produced the Malayalam film Iniyum Marichittillatha Nammal (1980) directed by Chintha Ravi.
He died on 30 March 2016 of heart-related ailments.
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Malayalam–language writer and journalist (1948–2016)
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Babu Bharadwaj was born on 15 January 1948 in Chemanchery Grama Panchayat.
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Babu Bharadwaj died on 30 March 2016 in Kozhikode.
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Babu Bharadwaj was a journalist.
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