Vishnushastri Chiplunkar

Vishnushastri Chiplunkar (1850 to 1882) was a Marathi writer whose essays shaped modern Marathi prose style and who helped found one of the first Indian-run schools in Pune. Born in Pune into a Chitpavan Brahmin family, he was the son of the writer and Sanskrit scholar Krushnashastri Chiplunkar. He took a B.A. at Deccan College in 1872 and worked as a schoolteacher in government schools from 1872 to 1879. In 1880 he joined Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and Bal Gangadhar Tilak in founding the newspapers Kesari and Maratha, and he was a co-founder of the New English School in Pune, institutions meant to give a more patriotically inclined education than the schools run by the British Indian government. His monthly Nibandhamala, A Garland of Essays, is the work for which he is chiefly remembered, and he also ran the Kavyetihas Sangraha monthly, two printing presses and a bookshop. He died of typhoid at the age of 32.