Natyachhatakar Diwakar

• Name — Shankar Kashinath Garge • Birth Name — Shankar Govindrao Diwakar • Born — 18 January 1889 • Birthplace — Pune, Bombay Presidency, British India • Died — 1 October 1931 • Place of death — Pune, India • Other Names — Diwakar, Shankar Kashinath Garge • Known for — Natyachhata, a kind of dramatic monologues • Education — School Final, 1908 • Occupation — Clerk, teacher at Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya 1915–1931, writer. researcher

He also wrote plays, short stories. He was particularly influenced by the writings of Robert Browning, William Wordsworth, William Shakespeare. He did pioneering work in researching poems of a leading modern Marathi poet Keshavasuta. He was a favourite writer of a few leading Marathi writers like Durga Bhagwat, Vijay Tendulkar, Sadanand Rege. Ms. Bhagwat praises him in a book based on her long interviews. Mr. Tendulkar edited a book of Diwakar's Natyachhata's.