Madgule (Village ID 568594) is a village near Atpadi town in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. Prominent

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

poet Late G.d.

Madgulkar Gajānan Digambar Mādguḷkar (1 October 1919 – 14 December 1977) was a Marāthi poet, lyricist, writer and actor from India. He is popularly known in his home state of Mahārāshtra by just his initials as Ga Di Mā (गदिमा). He w ...

and his younger brother, Marathi author Late

Venkatesh Madgulkar Venkatesh Digambar Madgulkar (5 April 1927 - 27 August 2001) was one of the most popular Marathi writers of his time. He became well-known mainly for his realistic writings about village life in a part of southern Maharashtra called Maandesh, se ...

, belongs to this village. Being original surname as Kulkarni, Madgulkar (means from Madgule) surname was adopted by G.D. Madgulkar which is based on name of Madgule. According to the 2011 census it has a population of 1911 living in 394 households.

References

{{coord missing, Maharashtra Villages in Sangli district