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He received his Master of Surgery in Agricultural Journalism from Wisconsin University.
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Arvind Gokhale
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He hailed from Maharashtra, India. Aravind Gokhale received his Master of Science in Botany from Bombay University. He taught and conducted research in Economic Botany for 20 years at the College of Agriculture in Poona.
He later worked as a Fertilizer Executive with a firm in Bombay, The Dharamsi Morarji Chemical Company
Limited. He lived in both Bombay (where he worked) and Poona (where his family lived). He was one of the pioneers of the modern Marathi short story.
He had written over 300 short stories in Marathi, collected in 20 books, by 1965. His stories have been translated in most of the Indian and European languages.
He was the Editor of "Pick of the Year" a Marathi annual of short stories.
He was awarded a prize (shared) for the best short story in an Afro-Asian Short Story competition organized by the London-based Encounter magazine.}
He wrote numerous film-scripts, radio skits and a travelogue on the United States.
Gokhale wrote 25 collections of his short stories. The following are some of them:
Najarana (1944)
Maher (1949)
Mithila (1959)
Anamika (1961)
Nakoshi (1977)
Mukta
Manjula
Rikta.
