Rajaram Bhalchandra Patankar (1 January 1927 – 24 May 2004), generally known as R. B. Patankar, was a Marathi critic and scholar of modern aesthetics, who wrote both in Marathi and English. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975 for his scholarly work Saundarya Mimansa (1974). Source: Wikipedia (en)