Career
He was also associated with the All India Radio, Maharashtra Times, Sakaal and their Goa edition, Gomantak Times during his career. Gadkari was born on 25 September 1928 in Mumbai, in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra. His first known posting was with the All India Radio.
Later, he worked with Maharashtra Times, and moved on to Sakal and their Goan edition, Gomantak Times.
Subsequently, he joined Loksatta and became its Group Editor in 1991. After his retirement from service in 1992, he continued freelance writing and contributed a column in the city based newspaper, Mumbai Chaufer, till 1997.
Gadkari was in the news on more than one occasion. In 2004, he was again in the news when a group of known personalities including Subhash Bhende, Sadashiv Amrapurkar and himself, filed a public interest litigation at the Mumbai High Court, seeking disenfranchisement of the Mumbai slum dwellers.
He was awarded the civilian honour of the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1990.