: रवींद्र पिंगे) (13 March 1926 - 17 October 2008) was a Marathi

Marathi people

The Marathi people or Maharashtrians are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India. Their language Marathi is part of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages...

 writer.

His family hailed from the Konkan

Konkan

The Konkan also called the Konkan Coast or Karavali is a rugged section of the western coastline of India from Raigad to Mangalore...

 region of Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India

India

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. Though he grew up in Mumbai

Mumbai

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, his writings depicted his love for Konkan. He retired as an official at All India Radio

All India Radio

All India Radio , officially known since 1956 as Akashvani , is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati. Established in 1936, it is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan, the national television broadcaster. All India Radio is one of the largest radio networks...

.

Authorship

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

Durga Bhagwat

Durga Narayan Bhagwat , popularly known as Durga Bhagwat, was an Indian scholar, socialist and writer. She studied Sanskrit and Buddhist literature, roamed jungles of Madhya Pradesh to study tribal life, later returned to Mumbai as a researcher and wrote books in Marathi...

and Narayan Ganesh Gore had influenced him.

The following is a partial list of over 30 books of Pinge.

• परशुरामाची सावली
• प्राजक्ताची फांदी
• सुखाचं फूल
• आनंदाची दिशा
• आनंदव्रत
• दुसरी पोर्णिमा
• पश्चिमेचे पुत्र
• पिंपळपान
• हिरवीगार पानं
• सर्वोत्तम रवींद्र पिंगे