Overview

• Family and agency reports said she died in Pune on Friday at 85 due to age-related ailments.
• She had been unwell for a few days and declined hospital care; her body is at Sassoon Hospital and last rites are planned for Sunday.
• Sane taught botany at Abasaheb Garware College from 1962 until 2000 and authored more than 30 books.
• She spent decades in her ancestral Budhwar Peth wada without an electricity connection, rejecting appliances such as a refrigerator and TV.
• Born on March 13, 1940, she earned a PhD and later an MPhil in Indology, and often called herself the caretaker of the dogs, cats, mongoose and birds that shared her home.