Shirish Pai (15 November 1929[1] – 2 September 2017[2]) was a social worker and a writer from Maharashtra, India.
[citation needed] Alongside her father, Shirish played a role in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement.
[citation needed] She wrote several books, including collections of her poems.
[5] In a newspaper interview in June 2011 she revealed that she had started writing and composing poems from the time she was in secondary school and received great encouragement from her father in this regard.
[citation needed] Shirish was married to lawyer and journalist Vyankatesh Pai.