Sane Guruji

Sadashiv Pandurang Sane was a writer and a poet. He was such a fine teacher that he was given the title of National Teacher and came to be known as Sane Guruji. He wrote seventy-three books in all, mostly for children, of which the most famous and loved is Shyamchi Aai. Editor, playwright, orator, film-maker Acharya Atre made a film on the book that won the President’s Gold Medal for Cinema in 1954 at the first edition of the National Film Awards.