Mumbai: Senior journalist, film critic and writer Neela Vasant Upadhyay breathed her last at her home in Chembur on Monday night. She was 79 and is survived by a daughter and a son. Her body was cremated at the Charai crematorium in Chembur on Tuesday.
She was the first full-time female reporter in Marathi journalism. She reported for 36 years from 1970 onwards as a special correspondent for 'Maharashtra Times'. She was active in the Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh.
