Eminent Bengali writer Buddhadeb Guha has passed away. He was 85. He died of post-Covid complications at a private hospital in Kolkata at 11.25 pm on Sunday after a massive cardiac arrest, family members said.

The writer had been hospitalised earlier this month after he complained of breathlessness and urinary infection, they said. He had contracted Covid-19 in April and was hospitalised for 33 days. Guha was predeceased by wife, eminent Rabindra Sangeet exponent Ritu Guha in 2001. He is survived by two daughters.