WRITER - EDITOR VASANT JOSHI HAS PORTRAYED MANY VERSATILE AND EMINENT PEOPLE IN HIS COMPILATION ‘ASHI MANASE YETI’. THESE INCLUDE M.M. DATTO VAMAN POTDAR, PROF. N.C. PHADKE, RANJIT DESAI, DR. V.B. KOLTE, RAM SHEWALKAR, SHANKAR PATIL, ETC. HE ELABORATELY DESCRIBES THE STYLE AND CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF THESE PERSONALITIES ALONG WITH SOME MEMORIES. WHEN THE WRITER WAS AT WAI, HE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN THE COMPANY OF D.V. POTDAR ABOUT WHICH HE HAS PENNED DOWN FREELY. HE HAS WORKED AS N.C. PHADKE’S SCRIBE FOR A WHILE, THAT ALSO HE HAS WRITTEN DOWN. HE HAS INTRODUCED EMINENT PEOPLE LIKE PROF. DR. V.K. GOKAK, TULENDRA RAJE BHONSALE OF TANJAWUR, ABASAHEB ALIAS KISAN VEER, ETC. CERTAINLY A READABLE COLLECTION. ‘अशी माणसे येती’ हा लेखक-संपादक वसंत जोशी यांचा व्यक्तिचित्रसंग्रह. म. म. दत्तो वामन पोतदार, प्रा. ना. सी. फडके, रणजित देसाई, डॉ. वि. भि. कोलते, राम शेवाळकर, शंकर पाटील प्रभृतींची व्यक्तिचित्रं त्यांनी या संग्रहात रेखाटली आहेत. काय आहेत या आठवणी, कसा लाभला या व्यक्तींचा जोशींना सहवास, एक व्यक्ती म्हणून जोशींना या व्यक्ती कशा भावल्या…जाणून घ्या या व्यक्तिचित्रसंग्रहातून.
