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Social worker and writer from Maharashtra, India (1929?2017)
Shirish Pai
(
Devanagari
: ????? ??; 15 November 1929
[1]
? 2 September 2017
[2]
) was a social worker and a writer from
Maharashtra
,
India
. She had written in
Marathi
and
English
, primarily the former.
Early life
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Shirish was the elder daughter of
Acharya Atre
. She had a college degree in Law from Government College of Law, Mumbai.
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Career
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She joined her father's newspaper,
Maratha
, as a journalist.
[4]
She was deeply influenced by the Soviet thinking and way of life, and toured the
Soviet Union
and other Eastern Bloc countries.
[
citation needed
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Alongside her father, Shirish played a role in the
Samyukta Maharashtra
movement.
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citation needed
]
Writing
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She wrote several books, including collections of her poems. She introduced the
haiku
form of poetry to
Marathi literature
in 1975.
[4]
She has also translated Japanese haiku into Marathi and English.
[5]
In a newspaper interview in June 2011 she revealed that she had started writing and composing poems from the time she was in secondary school and received great encouragement from her father in this regard.
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citation needed
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Family
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Shirish was married to lawyer and journalist Vyankatesh Pai. They have two sons, Rajendra Pai and Vikramaditya Pai who are both lawyers. She resided, and died, in Mumbai.
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References
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External links
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The following web page lists Shirish Pai's books: