Dattaram Maruti Mirasdar

Dattaram Maruti Mirasdar (14 April 1927 – 2 October 2021), popularly known by his initials ("D Ma" and also as "Dadasaheb") was a Marathi writer and narrator principally of humorous stories.His stories were principally based on rural Maharashtra.The subtle and comic stories he wrote were well read. Mirasdar was born on 14 April 1927 in Akluj and went to school in Pandharpur. He earned M.A. from the Sir Parashurambhau College in Pune and became a teacher in 1952. He became a professor of Marathi in a college in Pune in 1961.