Maharashtra: Thief returns TV stolen from poet Narayan Surve’s home, leaves apology note
‘I did not know that this was the home of Narayan Surve, else I would have never stolen from here,’ the note read.
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A thief who burgled a house at Neral in Maharashtra’s Raigad district returned some of the stolen items, including a television set, and left an apology note after realising that he had broken into the residence of late Marathi poet Narayan Surve, The Indian Express reported on Tuesday.
Surve, who was also a social activist, wrote poems depicting the struggles of the urban working class. He died on August 16, 2010.
The poet’s daughter Sujata Ghare and her husband Ganesh Ghare currently live in his house at Neral. The couple had left to visit their son in Virar on June 26, the newspaper reported. On July 14, a neighbour called to tell them their toilet window was broken and the grill was bent.
When the couple returned to Neral, they found several items missing from the house. “We have a big photograph of my father [Narayan Surve] on the wall,” Sujata Ghare told The Indian Express. “On the pillar next to the wall, we found a note written by the thief.”
The note, written in Marathi, said: “I did not know that this was the home of Narayan Surve, else I would have never stolen from here. Forgive me! I am returning some of the things that I have stolen, including the television. Sorry.”
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