Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar
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Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar (9 March 1899 – 26 November 1985) was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India. He wrote poetry under the pen name Yashwant.
Pendharkar was born on 9 March 1899, in the town of Tarale in
At the 1921
Ravikiran Mandal popularised Marathi poetry in Maharashtra during approximately 1922-35 through public poetry recitals by member poets. Pendharkar had both a melodious voice and a talent for presenting his recitals very effectively. (Some of the recitals used to be held in Lokamanya Tilak's Gayakwadwada in Pune under the sponsorship of Tilak's son Shridhar.)
In 1940, Maharaja
Pendharkar, a recipient of the civilian honour of the
Literary work
Pendharkar wrote poetry with romantic, social, and nationalistic themes. He also wrote some poetry for children (and three prose books.)
The following is a list of collections of Pendharkar's poems and prose writings:
- Yashawantī (1921)
- Tukaram Kamble
- Mahārāshṭra Wīṇājhaṅkār (1922)
- Bhāvamanthan (1930)
- Jaya-Maṅgalā (1931)
- Yashogandha (1935)
- Bandīshāḷā (1939)
- Kāwya Kirīṭ ((काव्य-किरीट)) (1939)
- Yashonidhi (1941)
- Motībāg (Poems for children) (1942)
- Ghāyaḷ (1944)
- Yashogirī (1944)
- Kāntaṇīchẽ Ghar (1945)
- Ojaswinī (1946)
- Yaśhodhan (यशोधन) (1956)
- Pāṇapoī (1956)
- Muthe, Lokamate (मुठे, लोकमाते) (1961)
- Hāpisar (1962)
- Kamaṇḍalu (1962)
- Samartha Rāmdās (1964)
- Chhatrapatī Shiwarāy (1968)
- Raṇadurgā Jhāshīwālī (1977)
References
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.