Noted satirist K P Saxena dies at 81

LUCKNOW: The tongue that lashed the quirks of the world and left everyone in splits went silent here on Thursday morning. Bitten by the crab, Hindi satirist par excellence Padma Shri K P Saxena of Lucknow, succumbed to a cardiac arrest. Saxena was battling cancer for the last one and a half years.

Dr Abhishek Shukla, who was attending him, informed that Saxena was completely bed ridden ash was extremely frail. He was being treated primarily for cancer and also for secondary issues that emerged such as infections that emerged in the course of cancer treatment.

The litterateur who has been writing for almost five and a half decades now is also associated with the dialogue he penned for acclaimed films including Lagaan, Swades and Jodha Akbar. He has also scripted Hulchal and several Bhojpuri movies. He began his career with a short story in the late 1950s that was rejected by 19 publications. But recognition came his way in 1960s after he started writing columns and scripts for All India Radio.

With the advent of television in 1975, the columnist turned into a playwright and won recognition as an actor soon after. His popularity on TV paved way for hasya kavi sammelans. His penchant for reading prose as well as poetry soon made him a darling of the crowd.

His son Rohit says his father has undergone surgery twice-in July 2012 in March 2013-to get rid of the unnatural growth of destructive cells (cancer) right below his tongue. He looks at his father's disease as an irony of life. "He has captured so many shades of life in his stories (more than 17,000). But now, life is drifting away from him in such a ruthless way," he said.

As the news of his demise spread, his fans and well wishers posted their piece of grief on social networking sites. Many of them remembered how Saxena's witty style brought a smile on their faces while others saw his death as a loss to the hindi literary world. His popularity could be gauged from the fact that governor BL Joshi paid a personal visit to him when he heard that Saxena was hospitalized.

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