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On Monday early morning, the news of sad demise of ‘Padma Vibhushan’ recipient Shivshahir Babasaheb Purandare hit Nagpurians like a bolt from the blue. They were devoted to the cause - of re-energising Maharashtra with the authentic and inspiring tale of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. While on tour, he and his close associate Rajabhau Kulkarni spent many nights sleeping at bus-stands in villages and towns of Vidarbha.
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Not many of present-day generation know that Purandare had spent several days in Sitabuldi and used to sleep on the verandah of eminent litterateur P B Bhave’s residence, after a tiring day. A young Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, fondly known as Babasaheb, was on a whirlwind tour of Vidarbha to popularise ‘Shivcharitra’ that he had penned after painstaking research on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.