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Bhausaheb Topiwala a great Mumbaikar 'Life is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom',  These words are very much applicable to Bhausaheb Topiwala. Topiwala Lane, Topiwala Theatre, Topiwala National Medical College, Topiwala College are the well known locations of Mumbai and residents   of Mumbai   especially from   Goregaon , Mulund , Mumbai Central and Girgaon are familiar with this names without knowing   this personality and thought either he was Zoroastrian or Gujarati   business man. But he was Maharastrian and his name was Anant Shivaji Desai popularly known as Bhausaheb Topiwala.  From Yogesh Gogwekar   Anant Shivaji Desai   born on 17th October 1853 in Walawal, Sawantwadi in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra, India. in Saraswat Brahmin Family. Desai could not complete his academic education after 3rd Standard due to poor financial condition of his family. Therefore, he came to Mu...

Acharya Pralhad Keshav Atre was a multi-faceted personality and missionary of laughter . His identity has been linked to Humour and compassion, Laughter and Applause. He made Maharashtra to laugh for more than five decades through his all-encompassing Laughter and humour. He was an eminent writer, a poet, an educationist, a journalist, a political leader, a film   producer, director, script writer, actor, a dramatist and great orator and also a prolific and remarkable reader, appreciator and assimilator of Indian and Western literature. From Yogesh Gogwekar Born on 13th August 1898 in the town of Saswad, near Pune in Maharashtra, Atre completed his schooling education from Pune and obtained BA and BT degree from Mumbai University. Later, he persuaded for Teacher’s Diploma (TD) from London University and ranked first in the BT examination and has been praised by his British Professors at the London Day Training College of London University for his general work. He has...