THIS IS A COLLECTION OF 18 CHARACTER SKETCHES. ‘DR. SHARAD PAWAR: SAHITYA, SANSKRUTI, ITIHAS YANCHI JAAN ASNARA NETA’ UNFOLDS SHRI. PAWAR’S CHARACTER. AT THE PUBLICATION OF ‘SHAHU SMARAK GRANTH’, DR. JAISINGRAO PAWAR HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET SHRI. SHARAD PAWAR. HE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF THE LATTER’S STUDIOUS NATURE AND REALISED THAT SHRI. PAWAR WAS AN EXCELLENT READER. SHRI. PAWAR HAD MADE SOME CRITICAL NOTES REGARDING TWO CRUCIAL PROJECTS AND SHARED THOSE NOTES WITH DR. JAISINGRAO. THES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS ARTICLE. ‘DR. PATANGRAO KADAM: SAHYADRICHYA KONDANATIL EK SONHEERA’ IS AN ARTICLE THROWING LIGHT ON DR. KADAM’S WORK IN THE EDUCATION FIELD AND THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT IN HIS VILLAGE. ‘SURYAKANT: SWAPNE PAHANARA EK JIDDI KALAWANT’ IS BASED ON MARATHI MOVIE LOVERS’ FAVOURITE ACTOR SURYAKANT, HIS VERSATILITY AS SEEN BY JAISINGRAO, HIS LOVE FOR HIS BROTHER, HIS WRITING AND HIS GREATNESS AS AN ACTOR. ‘CHANDRAKANT: EKA PUNAVECHYA CHANDRACHA ASTA’ IS BASED ON THE SENIOR CINEMA ACTOR CHANDRAKANT. HE WAS SURYAKANT’S ELDER BROTHER, AN ARTIST AND TOOK SOCIAL COMMITMENT SERIOUSLY.
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