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Shankar Kashinath Garge (शंकर काशीनाथ गर्गे) more popularly known as Natyachhatakar Diwakar (नाट्यछटाकार दिवाकर) (18 January 1889 – 1 October 1931) was a Marathi writer whose mastery of the Natyachhata, a kind of dramatic monologue made him the only major Marathi writer to have used this literary form very successfully. He was born in Pune, Bombay Presidency.

Shankar Kashinath Garge
Born	Shankar Govindrao Diwakar (1889-01-18)18 January 1889 Pune, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died	1 October 1931(1931-10-01) (aged 42) Pune, India
Nationality	Indian
Other names	Diwakar, Shankar Kashinath Garge
Education	School Final, 1908
Occupation	Clerk, teacher at Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya 1915-1931, writer. researcher
Known for	Natyachhata, a kind of dramatic monologues

He also wrote plays, short stories. He was particularly influenced by the writings of Robert Browning, William Wordsworth, William Shakespeare.[1]

He did pioneering work in researching poems of a leading modern Marathi poet Keshavasuta.^{[citation needed]}

He was a favourite writer of a few leading Marathi writers like Durga Bhagwat, Vijay Tendulkar, Sadanand Rege.^{[citation needed]}

Ms. Bhagwat praises him in a book based on her long interviews.[2]^{[page needed]} Mr. Tendulkar edited a book of Diwakar's Natyachhata's.[3]

References

External links

• Entry of Natyachhatakar Diwakar in Marathi Wikipedia https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/u23
• Entry of Natyachhatakar Diwakar in Marathi Vishwakosh https://marathivishwakosh.maharashtra.gov.in/khandas/khand7/index.php/component/content/article?id=13250

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