Yashwant Dev (1 November 1926 – 30 October 2018) was a Marathi poet and composer from Maharashtra, India.
[3] Dev was taught music by his father and made his public debut at All India Radio as a sitar player.
[4] He gained wide recognition once he launched the TV program Bhavsaragam, which helped make him popular across the Indian state of Maharashtra.
[5] After his first wife's death, he married Karuna Dev (née Desai), more famous by her name Neelam Prabhu during her marriage to Marathi stage actor Baban Prabhu when she was a major star in AIR's Shrutikaa program.
Dev died of pneumonia at the Shushrusha Citizens' Co-operative Hospital in Dadar, Mumbai on the 30th of October 2018 and at the age of 91, following a battle with the chikungunya virus.