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Talwalkar regularly took up social issues and tried to mitigate the problems faced by the common man.The programme was attended by Girish Gandhi, Brahmashankar Tripathi, Pradeep Maitra, Pramod Munghate and Deepak Nilawar. (Reporting by Preeti Yadav) He won many awards.Aasbe spoke on early life and career of Talwalkar and said that his books based on communism in Russia and China were popular among readers.Dwadashiwar said that Talwalkar led a rich journalistic life and commented extensively on crumbling of the once mighty Soviet Union (Reporting by Preeti Yadav)His book 'Badalta Europe' and writings on China were widely read. NAGPUR: Govind Talwalkar, former editor of 'Maharashtra Times' who passed away in the US recently, was a visionary who gave a new direction to Marathi journalism by including various aspects of life in the newspaper and wrote hard-hitting articles and editorials whenever the powers that be erred, forcing them to correct themselves in the larger interests of the society.This was the gist of speeches delivered by eminent personalities at a meeting held at Dhanwate Hall on Friday.The condolence meeting, organized by divisional centre of Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan and Maharashtra Union of Working Journalists , was attended by Vinod Shirsat , editor of 'Sadhana', Pratap Aasbe, senior journalist, and Suresh Dwadashiwar, editor of 'Lokmat', among others.Shirsat said, Talwalkar, who served as MT editor for 27 years, had on him deep impact of writings of Charles Dickens..