Ravindra Pinge

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Ravindra Pinge (13 March 1926 – 17 October 2008) was a Marathi writer. His family came from the Upale-Prindavan area near Kharepatan in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, but he grew up in Mumbai. His writing shows his love for Konkan. He retired as an official at All India Radio. Both his parents were teachers, and he said that made him have a soft corner for the teaching profession. He had a son named Sambaprasad Pinge and a daughter named Chitra Pinge (now Chitra Wagh). He was loosely associated with the Socialist Party while growing up in Mumbai in the 1940s.

Pinge loved traveling and wrote many travelogues and articles about his journeys. He often traveled with his wife Kamal Pinge to places like Kaladi in Kerala, the Kutch desert, the India-East Pakistan border before the 1971 war, and Assam during the 1984 assassination of Indira Gandhi. He wrote about these travels and later published many as books. He also wrote short stories and said he was influenced by Durga Bhagwat and Narayan Ganesh Gore. He died in 2008 after a brief illness following a cancer diagnosis.