Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He is best known for his creation The Common Man and for his daily cartoon strip, You Said It in The Times of India, which started in 1951.
Pratapgad is a mountain fort located in Satara district, in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra. The fort is situated 24 kilometres from the Mahabaleshwar hill station. The fort is now a popular tourist destination.
Dilip Purushottam Chitre ( his full name ) (17 September 1938 – 10 December 2009) was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a notable bilingual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a teacher, a painter, a filmmaker and a magazine columnist.
Raghunath Dhondo Karve was a professor of mathematics and a social reformer from Maharashtra, India. He was a pioneer in initiating family planning and birth control for masses in Mumbai in 1921.
Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade is an Indian Marathi language writer, poet, critic and linguistic scholar. Beginning with his debut novel Kosala, Nemade brought new dimensions to the world of Marathi literature. This was followed by a tetralogy consisting of novels Bidhar, Hool, Jareela and Jhool. In 2013, Nemade published his magnum opus titled Hindu: Jagnyachi Samruddha Adgal which is regarded as his masterpiece. Nemade is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award as well as the Jnanapith Award, the highest literary honour in India. In 2013, he was awarded the Padma Shri.
Vasant Sarwate was an Indian cartoonist and writer who was published primarily in Marathi publications during his lifetime.
Dattatraya Ganesh Godse was an Indian historian, playwright, art critic, art director, theatre and costume designer, and illustrator. He received a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1988. He wrote almost exclusively in Marathi.
Balakrishna Bhagwant Borkar was a poet from Goa, India.
Govind Shripad Talwalkar was a distinguished journalist, legendary editor of Maharashtra Times, historian, scholar, intellectual with liberal views, social reformer and author of 32 books. He received the Lokmanya Tilak Award from the Government of Maharashtra, India and also the B. D. Goenka Award, Durga Ratan Award, Agarkar Award & Bhalerao Award for excellence in journalism and Ramshastri award for social justice. He received Maharashtra Government Award for his book - Navroji te Nehru; and N.C. Kelkar Award and Sahitya Paishad Award for his four volume book - Soviet Samrajyacha Uday ani Asta; and Damani Award for his book - Badalta Europe.
Satish Vasant Alekar is a Marathi playwright, actor, and theatre director. A founder member of the Theatre Academy of Pune, and most known for his plays Mahanirvan (1974), Mahapoor (1975), Atirekee (1990), Pidhijat (2003), Mickey ani Memsahib (1973), and Begum Barve (1979), all of which he also directed for the Academy. Along with Mahesh Elkunchwar and Vijay Tendulkar he is considered among the most influential and progressive playwrights in modern Marathi and Indian theatre.
Dr. Datta Walvekar was an Indian Marathi singer and music director.
Ashok Damodar Ranade was a scholar musician and ethnomusicologist. Ranade was a vocalist trained in traditional Hindustani Art music. He was a composer constantly experimenting with new uncharted vistas. A pioneer of Cultural Musicology in India, Dr Ranade was a missionary who contributed in enriching India's cultural life in the 21st century.
Dinanath Dalal was an Indian painter and illustrator. He is well-known for his artworks that gained popularity among the masses through book covers, stories, cartoons, calendars and illustrations, especially in the Deepavali magazine. His works depicted various subjects such as mythology, history, social issues, human emotions and politics.
Vidyadhar Oke is an Indian doctor, musicologist, harmonium player, and astrology consultant, who has done research in the use of shrutis (microtones) in Indian classical music and created a unique 22-shruti version of the harmonium.
Dr. Anil Sapkal is an academician, creative writer in Marathi and a film maker. In 2014 he became a Professor at Marathi Department, University of Mumbai. He wrote the screen play and dialogue for the recent Marathi feature film Dhol Taashe.
Baburao Sadwelkar was an Indian painter, art writer, educator and administrator. He is known for his portraits, landscape and abstract paintings in the Impressionistic style. As an art educator, he brought a modern outlook to art education at the Sir J. J. School of Art after learning about the American art education model under a Fulbright Scholarship in 1962–63. Sadwelkar was also passionate about the art tradition of Maharashtra and the art history of the Sir J. J. School of Art. From 1975 to 1986, he served as the Director of Art for Maharashtra State where the preservation and propagation of this artistic tradition prospered under his guidance. He wrote extensively about the art and artists from the state and which are considered as important art publications.
Milind Mulick is a watercolour artist based in Pune, India. His work has been shown at exhibitions internationally as well as all over India. He has had an influence on new Indian painters such as Sujith Sudhi and Bijay Biswaal.
Janardan Dattatraya Gondhalekar was an Indian painter, administrator and scholar of Indian & Western Art. He served as the dean of Sir J. J. School of Art from 1953 to 1957.
Nandan Hanmant Phadnis is an Indian cricketer who played first class from 1986 to 1992 and List A cricket from 1986 to 1996 at the Ranji Trophy and the Wills Trophy for the Maharashtra cricket team as a wicket-keeper and batsman. Since 1998, he has served as an umpire for List A and Twenty20 cricket.
