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'''Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave''' ([[Devanagari]]: पुरुषोत्तम भास्कर भावे) (12 April 1910 &ndash; 13 August 1980) was a [[Marathi people|Marathi]] writer from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]].<br />
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Bhave lost his mother when he was just nine years old. His father [[Bhaskar Haree Bhave]] was a military doctor. Bhave and his brother were taken by his maternal grandparents to [[Malakapur]], where they grew up. Bhave was never on good terms with his father, a strict disciplinarian who threw him out of home at least twice.<br />
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He received his college education at [[Hislop College]] and [[Law College]] in [[Nagpur]]. Bhave was a fiery political activist of the right-wing, ''[[Hindu]]'' (हिंदुत्ववादी) persuasion. <br />
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In the 1930s, he ran in [[Nagpur]] periodicals "Savdhan" (सावधान) and "Adesh" (आदेश), 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 he 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 the government forever.<br />
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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'. Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar was an established poet in Marathi literature. Vyankatesh Madgulkar, his younger brother was a story writer and was a very close friend to Bhave. Bhave edited and published a book of short stories named 'Thorali pati' (which means Bada Bhai), written by Gajanan Madgulkar who, by that time, did not publish his short stories as he was already a known poet. <br />
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Bhave was elected president of [[Marathi Sahitya Sammelan]] in [[Pune]] in 1977. He was elected president of [[Natya Sammelan]] in [[Ahmednagar|Nagar]].<br />
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==Authorship==<br />
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Bhave wrote 17 novels, 8 plays, 2 screen scripts, 26 collections of his short stories, and 12 collections of his essays. The following is a partial list of his books:<br />
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* Rakta Ani Ashru (Collection of political essays)<br />
* Viththala Panduranga (Collection of essays)<br />
* Akulina (Novel)<br />
* Vyaadh (Novel)<br />
* Darshan (Novel)<br />
* Mage Walun (Novel)<br />
* Warshawa (Novel)<br />
* Adich Akshare (Novel)<br />
* Don Bhinti (Novel)<br />
* Wishakanya (Play)<br />
* Maharani (Play)<br />
* Padmini (Play)<br />
* Swamini (Play)<br />
* Mukti<br />
* Pratham-Purushi Ek-Wachani (Three-part autobiography)<br />
* परंपरा (Collection of short stories)<br />
* प्रतारणा (Collection of short stories)<br />
* सार्थक (Collection of short stories)<br />
* साडी (Collection of short stories)<br />
* ठरीव ठशाची गोष्ट (Collection of short stories)<br />
* satarave varsha (Laghu katha)<br />
* rakhamachya muli {novel}<br />
* Pingat petiche rahasya {vinodi katha<br />
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==References==<br />
*[https://archive.is/20130126093130/http://origin.maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4390115.cms]<br />
* [http://www.iconofindia.com/sahitya-akademi/bklst16.htm Laghu Katha]<br />
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[[Category:Marathi-language writers]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Pune]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Nagpur]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian short story writers]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian essayists]]<br />
[[Category:Dramatists and playwrights from Maharashtra]]<br />
[[Category:Novelists from Maharashtra]]<br />
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