Shankar Kashinath Garge more popularly known as Natyachhatakar Diwakar (18 January 1889 – 1 October 1931) was a Marathi writer whose mastery of the Natyachhata, a kind of dramatic monologue made him the only major Marathi writer to have used this literary form very successfully.

[1] He did pioneering work in researching poems of a leading modern Marathi poet Keshavasuta.

[citation needed] He was a favourite writer of a few leading Marathi writers like Durga Bhagwat, Vijay Tendulkar, Sadanand Rege.

[citation needed] Ms. Bhagwat praises him in a book based on her long interviews.

[2][page needed] Mr. Tendulkar edited a book of Diwakar's Natyachhata's.