Wasudev Waman Patankar (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

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shayari Urdu poetry ( ) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan. According to Naseer Turabi, there are five major poets of Urdu: Mir Taqi Mir (d. 1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. ...

, until then Shayari was an outcome of

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language. 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

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). Patankar studied

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and other

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s as a shishya under Sitaramshastri Kurumbhatte. In later years he completed his graduation in

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and further in

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and worked as a full-time

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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

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Baburao Naidu. He had a licensed

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(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. Mehfil

Writing style

After getting into

shayari he wanted to pen its independent Marathi version He started with

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

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and

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but as he studied deep his shayari touched all the subjects from romance to various aspects of

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and

. Later Many Marathi shayars were inspired to present programmes of Marathi shayari.

Awards

*Rangat Sangat Pratishthan Puruskar (24 September 1995) *Shree Sant Namdev puraskar by Swatantra Sainik B.P Bhai Futane Pratishthan Jamkhed (1988) Late Bhausaheb Patankar Memorial Award given by Rangat Sangat Pratishthan is awarded in recognition to the contribution in the field of shayari.

Books

* ''Marathi Shayari'' (1962) * ''Marathi Mushayra'' (1966) * ''Mehfil'' (1975) * ''Dost ho'' (1977) * ''Zinda Dil'' (1980) Vapu

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Patankar, Wasudev Waman 1908 births 1997 deaths Marathi-language poets People from Yavatmal Poets from Maharashtra 20th-century Indian poets Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University alumni Indian male poets 20th-century Indian male writers

Life

Writing style

Awards

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