Tryambak Bapuji Thombre

Trimbak Bapuji Thombre (IAST:Trimbak Bāpūji Thombare) (13 August 1890 – 5 May 1918), (known popularly as Balkavi or Balkavi Thombre), was a Marathi language poet from Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, India. Balkavi was born on 13 August 1889 in a Marathi Deshastha Brahmin family to Bapurao Devaram Thombre and Godatai in patonda near Dharangaon village in Khandesh district of Bombay Presidency in British India. His father was employed in police department. Due to frequent shuffling of postings of his father his education suffered a lot. Balkavi had an elder sister and also had an older and younger brother. Due to his father's job he spent his childhood in Jamner, Yawal, Betawad, Erandol towns of Jalgaon district. Till he went in fourth class he did not involved in poetry writing, in the fourth class he first time read the poems of Sridhar Mahipat.