Ranjit Desai

Ranjit Desai is an Indian novelist, playwright, and short story writer, born on 8 April 1928 in the Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. He is a writer known for his brilliant contributions to Marathi literature. He has written novels such as Radheya, Swami, Shriman Yogi, Baari, Raja Ravi Varma, Pavankhind, Lakshavedh, Shekara, Pratiksha, Abhogi, and Samidha. He is known for writing many short stories and plays such as Roop Mahal, Madhumati, Jaan, Kanav, Gandhali, Aalekh, Kamodini, Morpankhi Sawalya, Katal, Babulmora, Sanket, Kanchan Mrug, Dhan Apure, Pankh Zale Vairi, Swar Samrat Tansen, Garud Zep, Ram Shashtri, Shriman Yogi and Swami respectively.

He is an excellent playwriter known for the Bollywood movie Rang Rasiya Click to look into! >> Read More... , which was based on his Novel Raja Ravi Verma. Apart from this, he has written movie scripts for Rangalya Ratri Ashya, Sawal Maza Aika, Nagin, and Sangoli Rayana. He is celebrated for his novel Swami and Sriman Yogi. He has received many awards such as the Maharashtra Rajya Award (1963) and Hari Narayan Apte In the Maharashtra region of Khandesh, in the vill >> Read More... Award (1963), Sahitya Akademi Award (1964) for his novel  Swami. In 1973, he received Padma Shri from the Government of India, followed by Maharashtra Gaurav Puraskar in 1990.