Shirish Pai

Shirish Pai (Devanagari: शिरीष पै; 15 November 1929 – 2 September 2017) was a social worker and a writer from Maharashtra, India. She had written in Marathi and English, primarily the former. Shirish was the elder daughter of Acharya Atre. She had a college degree in Law from Government College of Law, Mumbai. She joined her father's newspaper, Maratha, as a journalist. She was deeply influenced by the Soviet thinking and way of life, and toured the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. Alongside her father, Shirish played a role in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement.