Keshav Jagannath Purohit (केशव जगन्नाथ पुरोहित) (b. 1923- 17 October 2018) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote using the pen name Shantaram (शांताराम).[1]
Purohit taught English literature for 40 years in different colleges in Nagpur, Amravati, and Mumbai, and served for some years as the principal of Ismail Yusuf College in Mumbai before retiring.[2]
Purohit has written over 30 books on various topics.
He coordinated Marathi Vishwakosh (मराठी विश्वकोश) and coedited with Sudha Joshi Wisawe Shatak (विसावे शतक), a collection of worthy short stories in Marathi written by different authors of the twentieth century. He also compiled Pratinidhik Laghu Nibandh Sangrah (प्रातिनिधिक लघुनिबंध संग्रह). He translated into Marathi Ibsen's NorwegianVikings of Helgeland, naming the translation as Helgelandche Chanche (हेल्गेलंडचे चांचे).
Santryancha Baag (संत्र्यांचा बाग) (1942) and Manamor (मनमोर) (1946) are two early works of Purohit.
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