 Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar was an established poet in Marathi literature.Vyankatesh Madgulkar, his younger brother was a story writer and was a very close friend to Bhave.Bhave edited and published a book of short stories named 'Thorali pati' (which means Bada Bhai), written by Gajanan Madgulkar who, by that time, did not publish his short stories as he was already a known poet.