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Govind Purushottam Deshpande was born on 1938 in Nashik, Maharashtra, India, is an Indian playwright and academic (1938–2013). Discover Govind Purushottam Deshpande's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Occupation Playwright · academic
Age 75 years old
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Born 1938, 1938
Birthday 1938
Birthplace Nashik, Maharashtra, India
Date of death 16 October, 2013
Died Place Pune, Maharashtra, India
Nationality India

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1977

Deshpande received the Maharashtra State Award for his collective work in 1977 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for playwrighting in 1996.

Deshpande's wife, Kalindi, is a women's rights activist.

His daughter, Ashwini, is an economist at the Delhi School of Economics, and his son, Sudhanva, is a publisher with LeftWord Books and a theatre activist with Jana Natya Manch, Delhi.

Marathi stage and film actor Jyoti Subhash is his sister, and her daughter Amruta, also an actor, is his niece.

2004

He was the editor of the anthology of Indian plays in translation, Modern Indian Drama, published by Sahitya Akademi, 2004.

2006

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

2013

Govind Purushottam Deshpande (1938 – 16 October 2013 ) was a Marathi playwright and academic from Maharashtra, India.

Born in Nashik, Deshpande grew up in Rahimatpur, where he went to school.

He completed an MA in Ancient Indian History from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and enrolled for a Ph.D. at the School of International Affairs, New Delhi.

This school subsequently became part of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Deshpande completed his Ph.D. and later taught at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

He lived in Pune after retirement.

He suffered a brain hemorrhage in July 2013 and was hospitalized.

He died at home on 16 October 2013.

Deshpande wrote a column in the Economic and Political Weekly for four decades.