Dr R V Dhongde retired as Professor of Marathi Linguistics at the Deccan College, Pune. He has also been Chairman, English Language Committee, Maharashtra State Textbooks Bureau, Pune; and has been in charge of the Sanskrit Encyclopaedic Dictionary project at the Deccan College Pune. He is the editor of the Compact English-English-Marathi Dictionary from Oxford University Press India. Dr Dhongde has co-authored a book on linguistic grammar of Marathi and won several State awards for his books on Marathi stylistics. He has also co-authored a book on linguistic grammar of Marathi in English and at present he is co-authoring a linguistic grammar of Konkani in English. He is also preparing a Marathi-English Dictionary.