Career
Her maiden name was Sunita Thakur. Sunita-bai was a prolific reader during her youth, but began writing rather late in her life. She wrote her memoirs Aahe Manohar Tari.
(आहे मनोहर तरी) in 1990 (Mauj Publ).
The book received many awards. lieutenant has been translated into Gujarati (manohar chhe pan by Suresh Dalal, SNDT, Mumbai 1992), Hindi (Hai Sabse madhur phir bhi by Rekha Deshpande, Orient Longman 1996), Kannada (Balu Sogasadaru, by Uma Kulkarni, Mahila Sahitya, Hubli) and English (And Pine Foreign What Is Not, by Gauri Deshpande, Orient Longman, 1995).
She has acted in Marathi movies like Vande Maataram, Navra Bayko, and plays like Sunder mee honaar, Raajemaster, and Rajamaataa Jijaabai (solo show)
The Deshpande couple donated large sums of money to charitable causes. Pu Louisiana Deshpande died on 12 June 2000.
Sunitabai Deshpande died on November 7, 2009 due to old age at her residence in Pune.
She was 83 years old.