Publisher's Synopsis
ACHARYA ATRE WAS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS VARIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS AND ENDEAVOURS AND TRUELY A VERSETILE VISIONARY WHOSE PASSION FOR MAHARASHTRA IS REVEALED THROUGH HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE SAMYUKTA MAHARASHTRA MOVEMENT. IT IS UNANIMOUSLY BELIEVED THAT SAMYUKTA MAHARASHTRA MOVEMENT IS HIS CROWNING GLORY AND IS A UNIC EXAMPLE OF A LITERARY WRITER FIGHTING FROM THE FRONT WITH HIS ``PEN AND HIS ORATORY`` FOR THE FOUNDATION OF A UNIFIED STATE. DURING THE SAMYUKTA MAHARASHTRA MOVEMENT HE TRAVELLED WHOLE OF MAHARASHTRA AND WAS A ``MAN ON HIS HEALS`` THAT IS WHY LATE HOUNARABLE PRESIDENT SARVAPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN OFFERED HIS CONDOLENCES BY SAYING ``ACHARYA ATRE WAS NOT ONLY WRITER BUT FIGHTER TOO.`` HOWEVER, EVEN EARLIER HE WAS A FREQUENT VISITOR TO ALL PLACES IN MAHARASHTRA. A STUDY OF HIS LIFE AND WORKS REVEALS AN AMAZING JOURNEY IN THE FAR AND WIDE STRETICH OF PRESENT MAHARASHTRA, BESIDES HIS BIRTH PLACE SASWAD (NEAR PUNE), HIS CULTURAL KARMABHUMY PUNE AND HIS MEDIA AND POLITICAL STRIDES FROM MUMBAI. THIS HELPED UNIFYING THE CITIES AND THE CULTURES OF THE URBAN AND THE RURALS. HE WAS THE MOST FAVOURED ORATOR AND CHIEF GUEST FOR EVERY FUNCTION AND EVERY EVENT, IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF THE PEOPLE, WHO INVITED HIM FROM FAR OF PLACES AND BEING EXTREMELY SOCIAL AND LOVER OF PEOPLE HE WOULD ATTEND MANY PLACES AND THUS HE TRAVELLED TO THE VARIOUS PARTS OF MAHARASTRA. HE THUS KNEW THE PECULARITIES AND PRACTICES OF ALL AS MUCH AS HE WAS SUCCESSFUL IN LIVING HIS CHARISMA AND HIS THOUGHTS TO INSPIRE THE MILLIONS. HE BECAME A PART OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL`S DREAM. THE BOOK CAPTURES THIS JOURNEY AND PROVIDES AN INSIGHT IN THE MAKING OF THE VISIONARY AND HIS INDELIBLE IMPRINT ON THE MASSES.
