Govind Deshpande

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Govind Purushottam Deshpande (born 1938) also known as GoPu, his Marathi initials, or GPD, is a Marathi playwright and academic.

He taught Chinese Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for many years. Currently retired, he lives in Pune with his wife Kalindi, a women's movement activist. He writes a column in the Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai.

Some of Deshpande's best-known plays include: Udhwastha Dharmashala (published in English as A Man in Dark Times), Andhar Yatra (A Journey in Darkness), Satyashodhak (The Truth Seeker) on the life and times of the 19th-century social reformer Jotiba Phule and, most recently, Music System. Some of his plays, in English translation, are available from Seagull books, www.seagullindia.com/books.

He is a well-known essayist and critic. His collection of essays on culture and politics was published in 2006 (Dialectics of Defeat: Problems of Culture in Post-Colonial India, Seagull, Kolkata, 2006), and he also recently published a collection of poems, Ityadi Ityadi Kavita (Etc. etc. poems).

He is the recipient of the Sangit Natak Akademi (India's National Performing Arts Academy) award, as well as the Maharashtra State award.

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NAME	Deshpande, Govind Purushottam
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	Marathi playwright and academic
DATE OF BIRTH	1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	India
DATE OF DEATH
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