Balkavi
Tryambak Bapuji Thombre was an Indian Marathi poet. He used the pen name Balkavi, which is also spelled as Baalkavi or Baal-kavi.Early life
He spent a period of his childhood with writer and poet Narayan Tilak, a Marathi poet from the Konkan region of the Bombay Presidency in British Raj and a convert to Christianity. Narayan Tilak identified the talent within Tryambak and brought him to his home. Laxmibai Tilak had a motherly relationship with Balkavi. She mentioned some of her memories of Balkavi in her autobiography 'Smruti Chitre'.Thombre's poems are marked by exuberant language. Notable works include:
- Phulrani
- Audumber
- Shraavan-Maasii Harshh Maanasii
- Anandi anand Gade, jikade tikade chohikade
