Pandharinath Sawant (Marathi: पंढरीनाथ सावंत ) is a journalist from the state of
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
in
India who worked closely with
Prabodhankar Thackeray
Keshav Sitaram Thackeray (17 September 1885 – 20 November 1973; born Keshav Sitaram Panvelkar, also known as Keshav Sitaram Thakre and Keshav Sitaram Dhodapkar, commonly known by his pen name Prabodhankar Thackeray), was an Indian social refor ...
and
Bal Thackeray.
Work
He covered the 1972 famine in Maharashtra. He also covered the
Nav Nirman movement led by
Jayaprakash Narayan in
Bihar. His Autobiography is titled 'Mee Pandhari Girangavcha'. Based on the life of Textile millworkers residing prominently in Lalbaug and Parel-
Early life
Following the explosions on April 14, 1944 in
Mumbai, his family moved to
Mahad and then to Vinhere in
Konkan when a plague struck Mahad.
He spent his childhood in the Bhoiwada Police Headquarters. His father was a commander in the Naigaon Armed Police Headquarters.
Career
He taught in a village school, then worked as a helper in Mumbai at a factory, as a painter of
Ganapati
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Idols, as a bus conductor with the
Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport, as a drawing teacher in a Municipal Urdu school and then a journalist. His career as a journalist began when the Daily 'Marmik' published his essay on the Israel-Arab war of 1967, he holds the post of an editor at 'Marmik' to this day. He joined 'Shree', another Marathi daily in 1971, he also worked in the 'Prabhanjan',
Cine Blitz
''Cine Blitz'' is a Hindi and English film magazine published every month from Mumbai about Bollywood, Hindi cinema. Started in December 1974, as of 2006, it was one of the top three film magazines in India.
''Cine Blitz'' belongs to E.N. Commu ...
,
Lokmat and
Pudhari for a while.
He wrote a book in Marathi on Adolf Hitler.
References
Living people
Indian political journalists
Indian male journalists
Journalists from Maharashtra
Year of birth missing (living people)
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