Prabhakar Atmaram Padhye (1909 - 22 March 1984, Pune)

Prabhakar Atmaram Padhye (1909 - 22 March 1984, Pune) : Prabhakar Padhye edited a periodical named Dhanurdhari. He was a devoted member of the Socialist Party. He encouraged many young men to develop taste in literature and acted as their guide. His wife Kamal Padhye wrote her memoirs after Prabhakar Padhye's death. Padhye was a dedicated man of letters, a journalist, editor, story-writer, critic, travel-writer, novelist. His treatise 'Saundaryaanubhav' won Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980