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