WRITER – EDITOR VASANT JOSHI HAS PORTRAYED MANY VERSATILE AND EMINENT PEOPLE IN HIS COMPILATION ‘ASHI MANASE YETI’. THESE INCLUDE M.M. DATTO VAMAN POTDAR, PROF. N.C. PHADKE, RANJIT DESAI, DR. V.B. KOLTE, RAM SHEWALKAR, SHANKAR PATIL, ETC. HE ELABORATELY DESCRIBES THE STYLE AND CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF THESE PERSONALITIES ALONG WITH SOME MEMORIES. WHEN THE WRITER WAS AT WAI, HE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN THE COMPANY OF D.V. POTDAR ABOUT WHICH HE HAS PENNED DOWN FREELY. HE HAS WORKED AS N.C. PHADKE’S SCRIBE FOR A WHILE, THAT ALSO HE HAS WRITTEN DOWN. HE HAS INTRODUCED EMINENT PEOPLE LIKE PROF. DR. V.K. GOKAK, TULENDRA RAJE BHONSALE OF TANJAWUR, ABASAHEB ALIAS KISAN VEER, ETC. CERTAINLY A READABLE COLLECTION.