ACHARYA ATRE WAS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS VARIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS AND ENDEAVOURS AND TRUELY A VERSETILE VISIONARY WHOSE PASSION FOR MAHARASHTRA IS REVEALED THROUGH HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE SAMYUKTA MAHARASHTRA MOVEMENT. IT IS UNANIMOUSLY BELIEVED THAT SAMYUKTA MAHARASHTRA MOVEMENT IS HIS CROWNING GLORY AND IS A UNIC EXAMPLE OF A LITERARY WRITER FIGHTING FROM THE FRONT WITH HIS ``PEN AND HIS ORATORY`` FOR THE FOUNDATION OF A UNIFIED STATE. DURING THE SAMYUKTA MAHARASHTRA MOVEMENT HE TRAVELLED WHOLE OF MAHARASHTRA AND WAS A ``MAN ON HIS HEALS``
THAT IS WHY LATE HOUNARABLE PRESIDENT SARVAPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN OFFERED HIS CONDOLENCES BY SAYING ``ACHARYA ATRE WAS NOT ONLY WRITER BUT FIGHTER TOO.``
HOWEVER, EVEN EARLIER HE WAS A FREQUENT VISITOR TO ALL PLACES IN MAHARASHTRA. A STUDY OF HIS LIFE AND WORKS REVEALS AN AMAZING JOURNEY IN THE FAR AND WIDE STRETICH OF PRESENT MAHARASHTRA, BESIDES HIS BIRTH PLACE SASWAD (NEAR PUNE), HIS CULTURAL KARMABHUMY PUNE AND HIS MEDIA AND POLITICAL STRIDES FROM MUMBAI.
THIS HELPED UNIFYING THE CITIES AND THE CULTURES OF THE URBAN AND THE RURALS. HE WAS THE MOST FAVOURED ORATOR AND CHIEF GUEST FOR EVERY FUNCTION AND EVERY EVENT, IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF THE PEOPLE, WHO INVITED HIM FROM FAR OF PLACES AND BEING EXTREMELY SOCIAL AND LOVER OF PEOPLE HE WOULD ATTEND MANY PLACES AND THUS HE TRAVELLED TO THE VARIOUS PARTS OF MAHARASTRA. HE THUS KNEW THE PECULARITIES AND PRACTICES OF ALL AS MUCH AS HE WAS SUCCESSFUL IN LIVING HIS CHARISMA AND HIS THOUGHTS TO INSPIRE THE MILLIONS.
HE BECAME A PART OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL`S DREAM. THE BOOK CAPTURES THIS JOURNEY AND PROVIDES AN INSIGHT IN THE MAKING OF THE VISIONARY AND HIS INDELIBLE IMPRINT ON THE MASSES.
महाराष्ट्रातील कोल्हापूर, कऱ्हाड, रत्नागिरी, वाई इ. शहरांशी-गावांशी, तसेच बेळगाव, गोवा, इंदूर इ. महाराष्ट्रेतर ठिकाणांशी आचार्य अत्रे यांचा प्रत्यक्ष-अप्रत्यक्ष संबंध आला. त्यातून राजकीय, ऐतिहासिक, साहित्यिक संचित घडत गेले. त्या संचिताचं आणि अत्रे यांच्या व्यक्तिमत्त्वाचं समग्र दर्शन घडविणारं पुस्तक आहे ‘आचार्य अत्रे : बारा गावचं पाणी.’ १९४६मध्ये बेळगावात झालेल्या साहित्य संमेलनात आचार्य अत्रे यांनी संयुक्त महाराष्ट्राचा मांडलेला ठराव, गोव्याच्या स्वातंत्र्य लढ्यासाठी त्यांनी झिजवलेली लेखणी, गोव्यातील काही ठिकाणी घेतलेल्या सभा, कोल्हापूरशी आणि वि. स. खांडेकरांशी असलेलं त्यांचं जिव्हाळ्याचं नातं, बाबा कदम आणि शिवाजी सावंतांना त्यांनी दिलेलं प्रोत्साहन, रत्नागिरीच्या साहित्य संमेलनापासून सुरू झालेला अत्रे-फडके वाद इ. अनेक महत्त्वपूर्ण घटनांनी, व्यक्तींनी गजबजलेलं हे पुस्तक आहे.