Google Doodle honours Purushottam Laxman Deshpande’s contributions to literature and music on his 101st birthday

In celebration of ‘Maharashtra’s most beloved character’, Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, also called Pu La Deshpande, Google devoted Sunday’s doodle to the multi-talented Indian for his 101st start anniversary.

Illustrated by the Mumbai-based visitor artist Sameer Kulavoor, the doodle for November 8, offers us a glimpse into the achievements of the legendary Indian author, movie and stage actor, composer, musician, singer and orator, philanthropist and humorist. He was broadly thought to be a preferred tradition icon of his time for his sharp observations of life, and his signature type of joyful humour and satire.

Purushottam Laxman Deshpande was born in Mumbai on November 8, 1919, right into a household that already had an illustrious literary legacy. His grandfather was the translator of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali into Marathi. Before Pu La Deshpande started a profession in music, he earned a grasp’s diploma and served as a university lecturer. His writing premier was by way of Bombay journal and shortly he went on to jot down many novels, essays, comedy books, travelogues, youngsters’s performs, and one-man stage reveals, most of which attained mass reputation in Maharashtra.

The illustrator of the doodle, Sameer Kulavoor talks concerning the affect of Pu La Deshpande on the literary tradition of Maharashtra saying, “Being born and brought up in Mumbai/Maharashtra, one comes across Pu La Deshpande’s name and works constantly in popular culture – music, writing, films, theatre, literature, and more.”

He additionally talked about that within the doodle, he alludes to a Deshpande music that he remembers from his education days and needed to pay tribute to Deshpande’s vibrant character. “PuLa’s life and work is the message! I hope to highlight the fact that one can have several different outlets and forms to creativity.”

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