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Madhukar Vasudev Dhond (M. V. Dhond, In Devanagari: मधुकर वासुदेव धोंड, म. वा. धोंड) (3 October 1914 – 5 December 2007) was a literary and art critic from Maharashtra, India. He wrote in Marathi on Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Tukaram, Ramdas, Vitthal, Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Ram Ganesh Gadkari, Bal Sitaram Mardhekar, Dattatraya Ganesh Godse, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Ranjit Desai's novel Swami, Vijay Tendulkar's play Sakharam Binder, and many other topics. Dhond received in 1997 a Sahitya Akademi Award for his book Jnaneshwaritil Laukik Srushti.