KHUMASDAR ATRE

"THIS BOOK IS A COMPILATION OF MANY MEMORIES REGARDING THE GREAT MARATHI HUMORIST, P.K. ATRE.
HE HAD EXTENSIVELY WRITTEN IN THE ‘NAVYUG’. THIS BOOK PRESENTS SELECTIVE WRITINGS. ALONG WITH A FEW POEMS AND SMALL INCIDENCES THERE ARE MANY NOTES INCLUDED HERE. ATRE WAS AN EDITOR OF NEWSPAPER, BUT, HIS WRITING WAS NOT LIMITED BY IT. RATHER, HE WAS A VERSATILE LITTERATEUR. THIS BOOK TRIES TO FATHOM THE VASTNESS OF VARIOUS FORMS OF HIS WRITING. ‘NAVKAVINCHI TOLDHAD’, ‘OLAVA KAVITECHA’, ‘KAVICHE PIK’, ‘MIRZA GALIB’, ‘CHORANCHE SAMMELAN’, ETC. ARE A FEW OF HIS FAMOUS WORKS. THIS BOOK TELLS US MORE ABOUT THE DRAMAS WRITTEN BY HIM. THESE INCLUDE NOTES ON ‘NAMAN NATVARA’, ‘MARATHITIL PAHILE BOOKISH NATAK’, ‘MARATHI NATYSAMMELANE VA TYANCHE ADHYAKSH’, ETC. A FEW ARTICLES BASED ON THE CINE WORLD LIKE ‘NUTANLA ADVILE’, ‘TAPORYA DOLYANCHI HASARI NATI-MALA SINHA’, ‘GA DI MANNI LACH GHETALI’, ‘SANDHECHA SINHASHI SAMNA’, DAMUANNA MALVANKAR’, ETC. ARE INCLUDED HERE. ‘KON SUNDER? STREE KI CHANDRA?’, ‘STRI MHANJE RAMY KAVY’, ‘BAYKANCHI SHUDDH MARATHI’, ETC. ARE ARTICLES WRITTEN WITH WOMEN AT THE CENTRE. ATRE WAS FAMOUS FOR HIS LECTURES. A FEW OF THE ARTICLES INCLUDED HERE ARE BASED ON ‘PU LANCHE VYAKHYAN’, ‘ASE VAKTE ASHA SABHA’, ‘VAKTRUTVACHYA GAMTI’, ETC. WHERE LECTURE IS THE MAIN CONCEPT. A FEW ARTICLES ARE WRITTEN ON FAMOUS PERSONALITIES LIKE DURGA KHOTE, NATH MADHAV, NANA JAGANNATH SHANKARSHETH, FAMOUS OLYMPIC PLAYER MILKHA SINGH AND OTHERS. AS THESE ALL ARE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, THERE IS A LOT OF VARIETY SEEN. ‘TAPAL SANSTHECHI TEENSHE VARSH’, ‘MUMBAITALA PAHILA BARF’, ‘SAATH SALATIL BHRASHTACHAR’, ‘AMBRASAT KOKANI KAVA’ ARE A FEW TO NAME. THE POEMS INCLUDED HERE ARE ‘SHETANICHE PREMPATR’, ‘KASHAS KAY MHANU NAYE’, ‘BHUPALI VINAKARYACHI’, ‘RABAR JINKACH’, ETC. SHIRISH PAI HAD INTERVIEWED LATA MANGESHKAR UNDER THE TITLE ‘TULSHICHI MANJIRI-LATA’. IT IS INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK. THE MANGALASHTAKA BY SOPANDEV CHOUDHARI, ESPECIALLY FOR SHIRISH PAI’S MARRIAGE ARE INCLUDED HEREIN. EXTENSIVE NOTES ON ‘ATRE-PHADKE VAAD’, ‘ATRE ANI MATE’ ARE INCLUDED HERE. PROF. KRUSHNAJI PANDURANG KULKARNI HAD PREPARED A LIST OF HUNDRED MOST IMPRESSIVE MAHARASHTRIANS FOR THE 1945 DIWALI EDITION OF NAVYUG. IT IS INCLUDED HERE.
THIS BOOK IS THUS BECOME A KALEIDOSCOPE WITH THE MANY FORMS OF LITERATURE BY P. K. ATRE
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