November 8, 2020
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande’s 101st Birthday

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Purushottam Laxman Deshpande was born on this day in 1919 in Bombay [[now Mumbai), India. He earned a master’s degree and served as a college lecturer before he began to pursue a career in music. A master of the harmonium [[also known as the reed organ), he played as an accompanist for acclaimed vocal artists of the day and released his own hit recordings as well. But music was far from Deshpande’s only creative talent, and in the late 1940s, his writing premiered in Bombay magazine.