Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian writer
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About Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave
- Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave (Devanagari: ?????????? ?????? ????) (12 April 1910 – 13 August 1980) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. Bhave lost his mother when he was just nine years old.
- His father Bhaskar Haree Bhave was a doctor and was a military doctor.
- Bhave and his brother were taken by his maternal grandparents to Malakapur where they grew up.
- But Bhave was never on good terms with his father, a strict disciplinarian who threw him out of home at least twice. He received his college education at Hislop College and Law College in Nagpur.
- Bhave was a fiery political activist of the right-wing, Hindu (????????????) persuasion.
- In the 1930s, he ran in Nagpur periodicals "Savdhan" (??????) and "Adesh" (????), promoting his political views.
- Immediately after partition Bhave had been to riots affected Noakhali in East Bengal.
- He stayed there for about six months and maintained a diary interviewing riot affected people.
- It was his wish to publish it but could not publish it.
- Bhave was prosecuted for being responsible for Bhiwandi riots by Government of Maharashtra.
- But he fought the case with the help of Ramakant Ovalekar, a senior lawyer and won the case.
- Being activist of Right wing he was almost boycotted by government for ever. He wrote scripts of some Marathi movies like Rayagadcha Rajabandi and played small roles in movies like Ammaldar.
- He was a close friend of Raja Badhe, Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar, Vyankatesh Madgulkar and Govinrao Talawalkar.
- In fact, Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar used to call him his 'Guru'.
- In fact, Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar was an estblished poet in Marathi literature.
- Vyankatesh Madgulkar, his yonger brother was sa stori writer and was very close friend to Bhave.
- Bhave has edited and published a book of short stories named 'Thorali pati' ( means Bada Bhai) written by Gajanan Madgulkar who by that time did not publish his short stories as he was already earned name as a poet.
- He was elected president of Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Pune in 1977.
- He was elected president of Natya Sammelan in Nagar.
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