 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a noted Hindutva ideologue, writer, and poet, contributed to the Marathi language by coining new Marathi equivalents for words from other languages, mostly English.Prior to these Marathi equivalents, words from other languages were widely used, which was unacceptable to Savarkar.He opined that foreign words polluted the Marathi language and also made original Marathi words with the same meanings obsolete.