Vishnushastri Chiplunkar (20 May 1850 – 17 March 1882) (Marathi : विष्णुशास्त्री कृष्णाशास्त्री चिपळूणकर Pronounced) was a Marathi writer, whose writings have had a decisive influence on modern Marathi prose style. He was the son of the writer and scholar Krushnashastri Chiplunkar. Vishnushastri was born in Pune in a Chitpavan Brahmin family to the Sanskrit scholar Krishnashastri Chiplunkar. He obtained his B.A. from Deccan College, Pune in 1872 and worked as a schoolteacher in government schools during the years 1872–1879. In 1880, he founded (together with Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and Bal Gangadhar Tilak) the newspapers Kesari (केसरी, in Marathi) and Maratha (in English).He was also a co-founder The New English School in Pune. These institutions intended to provide a more patriotically inclined education as opposed to the schools run by the government in British India.