Background
Though he grew up in Mumbai, his writings depicted his love for Konkan.
Though he grew up in Mumbai, his writings depicted his love for Konkan.
His family hailed from Upale-Prindavan area near Kharepatan, in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. He retired as an official at All India Radio. He was loosely associated with Socialist Party while growing up in Mumbai in 1940s.
He was diagnosed with cancer in 2008 and died after a brief illness.
Pinge wrote a large number of travelogues and articles introducing contemporary well-known people in different fields and foreign writers to Marathi readers. Collections of many of them were subsequently published in book form.
He had said that Durga Bhagwat and Narayan Ganesh Gore had influenced him. The following is a partial list of over 30 books of Pinge.
परशुरामाची सावली
प्राजक्ताची फांदी
सुखाचं पदर
आनंदाची दिशा
आनंदव्रत
दुसरी पोर्णिमा
पश्चिमेचे पुत्र
पिंपळपान
हिरवीगार पानं
सर्वोत्तम रवींद्र पिंगे.