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- ↑ "Quality, not quantity of life, matters, feels Sulabha Deshpande". Indian Express. 13 October 2012.
- ↑ "The Rest is History". The Big Indian Picture. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ↑ Arvind Deshpande
- ↑ "Remembering Arvind Deshpande (May 31, 1932 – January 3, 1987)". January 2007.