AS THE CO-EDITOR OF VAINATEY, V.S. PENNED DOWN HIS THOUGHTS THROUGH VARIOUS COLUMNS. SOME OF THOSE WRITINGS ARE CLUBBED UNDER THE HEADING ‘SAMUDRAMANTHAN’. TO CAST AWAY THE SHACKLES OF FOREIGN RULE, SYNERGIZED EFFORTS WERE NEEDED. THIS NEEDED AWAKENING AMONG ONE AND ALL. THE FIRST NEWSPAPER TO DO SO WAS ‘DARPAN’. IT WAS FOLLOWED BY MANY IN THE COMING DAYS. THE READERS NOW HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO READ MORE ABOUT FREEDOM STRUGGLE. THEY ALSO GAINED INSIGHT FROM THIS READING. MOST OF THE NEWSPAPER WRITING WAS AIMED TO DO SO. KHANDEKAR WAS A REGULAR COLUMN-WRITER FOR VAINATEY. A FEW OF HIS COLUMNS LIKE ‘AGRALEKH’, ‘SAMUDRAMANTHAN’, ‘RAANFULE’, ‘PARICHAYACHI PARADI’, ‘TIPANE’ CONTAINED ALL-INCLUSIVE ARTICLES. MANY OF THESE ARE COMPILED UNDER THE TITLE ‘SAMUDRAMANTHAN’ NOW. HIS WRITING ALWAYS EXPRESSED TRUE AND HONEST CONCERN FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE. A TRUE VISIONARY, KHANDEKAR’S WRITING WAS A THOUGHTFUL RESULT OF HIS HIGH INTELLECT. READERS ALWAYS ACCEPTED IT WHOLE-HEARTEDLY.