Govind Purushottam Deshpande

Govind Purushottam Deshpande is a writer in Hindi cinema, credited on Dev (2004).

Govind Purushottam Deshpande (2 August 1938 – 16 October 2013) popularly known as GPD or Gopu, was a Marathi playwright and a scholar of modern Indian theatre, China studies, Sanskrit, and Marathi, as well as an academic of history, politics, and foreign policy. He was a professor of China studies at the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, where he taught for thirty-five years.

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