Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave (

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: पुरुषोत्तम भास्कर भावे) (12 April 1910 – 13 August 1980) was a

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writer from

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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. He received his college education at

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. Bhave was a fiery political activist of the right-wing, ''

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'' (हिंदुत्ववादी) persuasion. In the 1930s, he ran in

periodicals "Savdhan" (सावधान) and "Adesh" (आदेश), promoting his political views. Immediately after partition Bhave had been to riots affected

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. 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

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. 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. He wrote scripts of some Marathi movies like ''Rayagadcha Rajabandi'' and played small roles in movies like '' Ammaldar''. He was a close friend of

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, Vyankatesh Madgulkar and Govinrao Talawalkar. In fact,

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. Bhave was elected president of

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in 1977. He was elected president of Natya Sammelan in

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Authorship

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: * Rakta Ani Ashru (Collection of political essays) * Viththala Panduranga (Collection of essays) * Akulina (Novel) * Vyaadh (Novel) * Darshan (Novel) * Mage Walun (Novel) * Warshawa (Novel) * Adich Akshare (Novel) * Don Bhinti (Novel) * Wishakanya (Play) * Maharani (Play) * Padmini (Play) * Swamini (Play) * Mukti * Pratham-Purushi Ek-Wachani (Three-part autobiography) * परंपरा (Collection of short stories) * प्रतारणा (Collection of short stories) * सार्थक (Collection of short stories) * साडी (Collection of short stories) * ठरीव ठशाची गोष्ट (Collection of short stories) * satarave varsha (Laghu katha) * rakhamachya muli * Pingat petiche rahasya {vinodi katha

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bhave, Pu Bha 1910 births 1980 deaths Marathi-language writers Writers from Pune Writers from Nagpur 20th-century Indian short story writers 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Indian novelists 20th-century Indian essayists Dramatists and playwrights from Maharashtra Novelists from Maharashtra Presidents of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan