Wasudev Waman Patankar

Life

Bhausaheb was born as Wasudev Waman Patankar on 29 December 1908. Wasudev’s  father Waman Patankar was a school pburton@example.com.(Maharashtra). Patankar studied Vedas, philosophy and other shastras as a shishya under Sitaramshastri Kurumbhatte. In later years he completed his graduation in arts and further in law and worked as a full-time advocate at Yavatmal District court from 1933 to 1959,because of his profession he used to deal with lot of villagers as clients and was tempted to jungle life, he took hunting lessons from his guru Baburao Naidu. He had a licensed Winchester Model 1895 (hunting cartridge .405 Winchester) rifle and had an official games license, which he used for hunting tigers, the speciality of his hunting was that never hunted the tiger sitting on a hunting platform or a tree stand as he believed in doing it face to face his observing nature can be seen from the observations he had on nature and its happenings, he wrote a series of such observations in Amrut magazine from 1952 to 1956.
He retired due to eyesight problems.

Writing style

After getting into Urdu shayari he wanted to pen its independent Marathi version He started with Marathi shayari at the age of 52 and his writing style clearly depicts his young heartedness and happy go lucky nature. With lucid and subtle use of words in his shayari large number of people relished it from beginning. His Marathi shayari in the initial stage was tending to humour and romance but as he studied deep his shayari touched all the subjects from romance to various aspects of life and philosophy. Later Many Marathi shayars were inspired to present programmes of Marathi shayari.