Vidyadhar Gokhale

Who is Vidyadhar Gokhale?

Vidyadhar S. Gokhale was a political activist, a Marathi playwright, and an editor of a Marathi newspaper, Loksatta, from Maharashtra, India. He was originally from Amravati.

He wrote novel Jhanjhawat and the following musical plays:

Suvarna Tula

Panditraj Jagannath

Mandarmala

Madanachi Manjiri

Jai Jai Gauri Shankar

Bawannkhani

He formed Ranga Sharada Pratishthan to stage the above plays.

He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Satara in 1993.

He had married two sisters before polygamy was outlawed, and thus had two wives.

He had represented Mumbai North Central in 9th Lok Sabha in 1989-91 as Shiv Sena candidate. Throughout his life, he was affiliated with socio-political organizations like RSS, Hindu Mahasabha which are proponents of Hindutva ideology, and was associated with their leaders like Savarkar, Pu Bha Bhave, Balasaheb Deoras. Gokhale's grandson, Omkar Dadarkar, was among the upcoming singers in the early 2010s.