veteran literary researcher and author rajendra dolkes latest marathi book the history of research in vidarbha was released on april 2 vidarbha sahitya sangh vss a patron institution to all marathi literary organizations in the region has published this book to mark the centenary year of vss dolke author of five such nonfictions says vidarbhas glorious history in the field of literature linguistics culture and philosophy has received the muchneeded recognition because of the research work done in the past 150200 years in an interview to toi dolke talks about the process of documenting the history of research and why generation next is least interested in researchbased writing excerpts q what can one look forward to in your book a the book is a research on research work we all know that vidarbha has a glorious history this land is known as the birthplace of goddess saraswati in the last 150200 years some researchers of literature culture art history and lifestyle conducted a comprehensive research on vidarbha and presented this legacy to the world in a most scientific way this book aims to highlight the contribution of these researchers and also to compile their work so that the book could be a great reference for generations to come vss president manohar mhaisalkar motivated me to write on this topic being a research lover for years i took it up as a challenge to complete this book in the centenary year of vss i worked tirelessly for almost 8 to 9 months finally we decided to call it a history of research in vidarbha because we cover how research was done on various topics q what are the subjects that you have featured a the book starts with a background of vidarbha region from the ancient to the modern period later it introduces readers to great authors poets and writers some of our upanishads were told or written in vidarbha region the book explains about them too i have focused on how great researchers have studied history linguistics dictions grammar and showcased vidarbha in all these fields the 400page documentation is going to be a great reference book for those who want to know how vidarbha developed intellectually q is writing nonfiction a different kind of a challenge a writing nonfiction is no doubt a challenge but keeping yourself relevant even after writing only nonfiction is a bigger challenge research is my favourite field because i inherited it from my late father suresh dolke a wellknown literary researcher my fathers library has thousands of manuscripts handwritten pothis and ancient documents on different subjects so getting old references for my book was easy earlier too i had written a book on researchers in vidarbha in which i had written about 17 great researchers who dug out the hidden legacy of vidarbha and reintroduced this region to its glory the big names included bhauji daftari dr vv mirashi acharya vinoba bhave bhausaheb madkholkar dr vb kolte and my father suresh dokle this book