What is Dwarkanath Sanzgiri?
{{BLP unsourced|date=February 2025}} '''Dwarkanath Sanzgiri''' (15 November 1950 – 6 February 2025) was an Indian columnist, writer, television presenter, and music show host. In a career spanning close to 50 years, he has written columns for numerous magazines and newspapers primarily in Marathi, but also in some other regional languages as well as English. ==Early life== Dwarkanath Sanzgiri was born in [[Mumbai]] in the Hindu Colony, Dadar (East). He attended the King George School (now known as Raja Shivaji Vidyalaya) and Ramnarain Ruia College. He went on to pursue B. E. in [[Civil engineering|Civil Engineering]] from VJTI (Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, now known as Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute) Matunga. ==Career== Dwarkanath Sanzgiri has pursued two careers simultaneously, one as an Engineer with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, from where he retired in 2008 as the Chief Engineer, Water Supply Projects. Simultanously, he established himself as a Columnist, Writer and Presenter. Starting his writing career in the late 1970s, in his formative years he contributed regularly to magazines like ‘Dinank’ and ‘Shree’. After India won the 1983 World Cup in England, he along with some other friends started the fortnightly sports magazine 'Ekach Shatkar' for which Sanzgiri worked as its Executive Editor. From the late 1980s onwards, Sanzgiri began writing columns for many other publications like 'Loksatta', ‘Aaj Dinank’, ‘Sanj Lokasatta’, ‘Mid-Day’, ‘Tarun Bharat’, ‘Pudhari’ and others. His sports articles and travelogue columns in ‘Loksatta’ were very well received. He has also been covering Cricket tournaments for the newspaper ‘Saamna’ for over 25 years. Dwarkanath Sanzgiri has also covered all One-Day International Cricket World Cups from 1983 onwards, till date. Apart from columns, he has written 40 books on various topics like travel, social issues, sports and films. From the late 90s Sanzgiri has been doing one-man standup talk shows and has done over 1000 shows till date.