Bhau Padhye

Prabhakar Narayan Padhye, known as Bhau Padhye, was born in Dadar in 1926. After graduating in economics from the University of Bombay in 1948, he worked in a trade union(1949-51), then as a high school teacher for three years. And later, as a clerk for four years in Spring Mill (Wadala) and four months at the LIC. In 1956 he married Shoshanna Mazgaonkar, a Bene-Israeli and a trade union worker. He became a journalist, editor and columnist for various Marathi magazines based in Mumbai, and wrote nearly a dozen novels, including, notably: Vaitagwadi(1965), which won a Maharashtra State prize, Karanta, Aggressor, Wanwa, Barrister Aniruddha Dhopeshwarkar(1967), which won a literary award, and the controversial Vasunaka. In addition, he produced five short story collections, including Murgi and Thalipeet, a play, and collected journalism, including political pieces in Pichkari(1979), and Guru Dutt(1990).

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