Madhukar Vasudev Dhond (M. V. Dhond) (3 October 1914 – 5 December 2007) was a literary and art critic from

Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

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Works

He wrote in

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India **Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...

Dnyaneshwar Sant Dnyaneshwar (Marathi pronunciation: ̪ɲaːn̪eʃʋəɾ, (Devanagari : सन्त ज्ञानेश्वर), also referred to as Jñāneśvara, Jñānadeva, Dnyandev or Mauli or Dnyaneshwar Vitthal Kulkarni (1275–1296 (living ...

Namdev Namdev (Pronunciation: aːmdeʋ, also transliterated as Nam Dayv, Namdeo, Namadeva, (traditionally, ) was a Marathi Vaishnava saint from Narsi, Hingoli, Maharashtra, Medieval India within the Varkari tradition of Hinduism. He was as a devo ...

Tukaram Tukaram (Marathi pronunciation: ̪ukaːɾam, also known as Tuka, Tukobaraya and Tukoba, was a Hindu Marathi saint of the Warkari sampradaya in Dehu village, Maharashtra in the 17th century. He was a '' bhakt'' of the god Vithoba, also kn ...

, Ramdas,

Vitthal Vithoba (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ''Viṭhobā''), also known as Vitthala (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ''Viṭṭhala''), and Panduranga (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Translite ...

Raghunath Dhondo Karve Raghunath Dhondo Karve (14 January 1882 – 14 October 1953) was a professor of mathematics, sex educator and a social reformer from Maharashtra, India. He was a pioneer in initiating family planning and birth control for masses in Mumbai in 1 ...

Ram Ganesh Gadkari Ram Ganesh Gadkari (26 May 1885 – 23 January 1919) was a Marathi poet, playwright, and humorist from Bombay Presidency, India. Ram Ganesh Gadkari was one of the writers in the new age transformation in Marathi literature. He wrote poetry u ...

, Bal Sitaram Mardhekar,

Dattatraya Ganesh Godse Dattatraya Ganesh Godse (3 July 1914 – 5 January 1992) 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 exclusivel ...

Anandi Gopal Joshi Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi, (Marathi: ; 31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine along with Kadambini Ganguly. She was the first woman from the erstwhile Bombay presidency of British India to stu ...

Ranjit Desai Ranjit Ramchandra Desai (8 April 1928 – 6 March 1992) was an Indian Marathi-language writer from Maharashtra, India. He is best known for his historical novels ''Swami'' and ''Shriman Yogi''. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964 an ...

's novel ''Swami'',

Vijay Tendulkar Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar (6 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was an Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marathi. His Marathi plays established him as a writ ...

's play ''Sakharam Binder'', and many other topics. Dhond received in 1997 a

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

for his book ''Jnaneshwaritil Laukik Srushti''.

Authorship

* ''The Evolution of Khyāl'' * ''Aisa Witevara Dewa Kothe!'' (Rajhans Prakashan, 2001) * ''Tarīhi Yeto Wasa Phulānnā'' (Rajhans Prakashan, 1999) * ''Jalyatil Chandra'' (Rajhans Prakashan. 1994) * ''Jnaneshwaritil Laukik Srishti'' (Mauj Prakashan, 1991) * ''Chandra Chavathicha'' (Mauj Prakashan, 1987) * ''Dnyaneshwari: Swarup, Tatvadnyan Ani Kavya'' (Majestic Book Stall, 1980) * ''Marathi Lavani'' (Mauj Prakashan, 1956)

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Books Authored by M. V. Dhond

Introduction to some of Dhond's work

Indian literary critics Marathi-language writers 1914 births 2007 deaths Indian atheists Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi {{India-writer-stub