Gangadhar Gadgil

About Gangadhar Gadgil

Gangadhar Gadgil (1923-2008), writer, economist and teacher, received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996 for his autobiographical work Eka Mungiche Mahabharata (An Ant’s Mahabharata). He wrote novels, plays, travelogues and a large number of stories. A pioneer who ushered in a new era of the short story in Marathi literature, his extraordinarily empathetic and observant stories deal with day-to-day situations faced by the urban middle-class.