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Being brought up quintessential marathi culture associated with marathi medium schooling,marathi poetry was introduced in early school life. Often study would become miserable with boring and complicated poetry till Mr. Mangesh Padgaonkar arrived with his poems. With his use of simple words and mischevious connotation, poetry no longer became avoidable exercise. Later years when I was captiavted by various songs (Bhavgeet – songs with emotive contents) composed by Yashwant dev, Hridayanath Mangeshkar and Sriniwas Khale, I was surprised that bulk of those songs were based on the poetry were penned by Padgaonkar. Even after being away from Marathi culture over last few decades, Padgaonkar’s poetry alongwith ग. दि. माड्गुळकर्, वा.रा.कांत्, सुरेश् भट् keeps intact my umbilical mothertongue cord. His poems are amazingly simple, witty , touching, funny but immesely sensitive to touch very eseence of life’s basic premises ‘ emotions’ . His poem “ या जन्मावर् या जगण्यावर् शतदा प्रेम् करावे ” r...