Wasudev Waman Patankar

Vasudev Patankar a.k.a. Bhausaheb Patankar
Born Vasudev Patankar
(1908-12-29)29 December 1908
Died 20 June 1997(1997-06-20) (aged 88)
Yavatmal, Maharashtra, India
Resting place Yavatmal
Nationality Indian
Education B.A (1930)-Morris college Nagpur, LLB(1933)-Vidhi Mahavidyalay, Nagpur
Occupation Advocate
Known for Shayari
Spouse(s) Indutai Patankar, Kalinditai Patankar
Children Jayant, Saroj, Vijay, Sudha, Arun

Wasudev Waman Patankar (Marathi: वासुदेव वामन पाटणकर; 29 December 1908 – 20 June 1997), popularly known by the name Bhausaheb Patankar (Marathi: भाऊसाहेब पाटणकर), was a prominent Marathi shayar, and one of the first to pen Marathi shayari, until then Shayari was an outcome of Urdu language.[1] W.W Patankar was an Advocate by profession.

Life

Bhausaheb was born as Wasudev Waman Patankar on 29 December 1908. Wasudev’s father Waman Patankar was a school headmaster at Achalpur.(Maharashtra). Patankar studied Vedas, philosophy and other shastras as a shishya under Sitaramshastri Kurumbhatte. In later years he completed his graduation in arts and further in law and worked as a full-time advocate at Yavatmal District court from 1933 to 1959,because of his profession he used to deal with lot of villagers as clients and was tempted to jungle life, he took hunting lessons from his guru Baburao Naidu. He had a licensed Winchester Model 1895 (hunting cartridge .405 Winchester) rifle and had an official games license, which he used for hunting tigers, the speciality of his hunting was that never hunted the tiger sitting on a hunting platform or a tree stand as he believed in doing it face to face his observing nature can be seen from the observations he had on nature and its happenings, he wrote a series of such observations in Amrut magazine from 1952 to 1956. He retired due to eyesight problems.

Wah Wah and cheers of the audience was a common scene of his Mushayara

Writing style

After getting into Urdu shayari he wanted to pen its independent Marathi version He started with Marathi shayari at the age of 52 and his writing style clearly depicts his young heartedness and happy go lucky nature. With lucid and subtle use of words in his shayari large number of people relished it from beginning. His Marathi shayari in the initial stage was tending to humour and romance but as he studied deep his shayari touched all the subjects from romance to various aspects of life and philosophy. Later Many Marathi shayars were inspired to present programmes of Marathi shayari.[2]


Awards

Late Bhausaheb Patankar Memorial Award given by Rangat Sangat Pratishthan is awarded in recognition to the contribution in the field of shayari.[4][5]

Books

Vasant Purushottam Kale (second from left) can be seen in one of the programmes

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "Songs from the past". Pune: The Times of India. 12 November 2002. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Prakash Lagu dead". Pune: Indian Express. 18 September 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Rangat Sangat Pratishthan". Pune: Pramod Adkar. 21 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Photo Gallery". Pune: Pramod Adkar. 21 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "Photo Gallery". Pune: Indian Express. 23 March 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
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