Shirish Atre-Pai

Shirish was the elder daughter of Acharya Atre. She had a college degree in Law from Government College of Law, Mumbai.^[3]

She joined her father's newspaper, Maratha, as a journalist.^[4] She was deeply influenced by the Soviet thinking and way of life, and toured the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries.^{[citation needed]} Alongside her father, Shirish played a role in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement.^{[citation needed]}

She wrote several books, including collections of her poems. She introduced the haiku form of poetry to Marathi literature in 1975.^[4] She has also translated Japanese haiku into Marathi and English.^[5]

In a newspaper interview in June 2011 she revealed that she had started writing and composing poems from the time she was in secondary school and received great encouragement from her father in this regard.^{[citation needed]}