Narahar Raghunath Phatak

Narahar Raghunath Phatak (Devanagari: नरहर रघुनाथ फाटक) (15 April 1893 – 21 December 1979) was a biographer and literary critic from Maharashtra, India. He wrote mostly in Marathi. Phatak presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Hyderabad in 1947. Phatak's ancestry is traced to a family which lived in the town of Kamod (कमोद) in the Konkan (कोकण) region of Maharashtra. His ancestors from a later generation shifted to Bhor, and his grandfather served as an administrator of that princely state. His father worked for the then government under British Raj in the northern part of India.