Editing Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (section)

==Awards and recognition==
[[File:Purushottam Laxman Deshpande 2002 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|Deshpande on a 2002 stamp of India]]
* [[Punyabhushan]]&nbsp;– 1993
* [[Padma Bhushan]]&nbsp;– 1990<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref>
* Maharashtra Gaurav (Bahurupi) Award&nbsp;
* [[Padma Shri]]&nbsp;– 1966<ref name="Padma Awards" />
* [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] ([[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Marathi|Marathi for ''Vyakti Ani Valli'']])&nbsp;– 1965
* [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]&nbsp;– 1967
* [[List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellows|Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]]&nbsp;– 1979
* [[Maharashtra Bhushan Award]]&nbsp;– 1996
* [[Kalidas Samman]]&nbsp;– 1987
* Honorary [[Doctor of Letters|Doctor of Literature]] Degrees from [[Rabindra Bharati University]] (1979), [[University of Pune]] (1980) and [[Tilak Maharashtra University]] (1993)
* First interviewer to interview [[Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru]], the first Prime Minister of India, for the then newly founded [[Doordarshan]]
* The "P. L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy" was established by the Government of Maharashtra in [[Mumbai]] to honour his contributions to Marathi literature{{nbsp}}– 2002<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pldkalaacademy.org/about.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629124557/http://www.pldkalaacademy.org/about.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=29 June 2014|title=P.L.Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy, Ravindra Natya Mandir, Prabhadevi, Mumbai|website=pldkalaacademy.org|access-date=1 November 2017}}</ref>
* A garden, ''[[Pu La Deshpande Garden|Pu. La. Deshpande Udyan]]'' (also known as "Pune-Okayama Friendship Garden"), in [[Pune]] was named after him in [[Memorialization|commemoration]]
* On 8 November 2020 (his 101st birth anniversary), Google honoured him with a [[Google Doodle]]<ref name="The Indian Express">{{cite web |url =https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/google-doodle-purushottam-laxman-deshpande-7008244/lite/ | title= P.L. Deshpande | work= The Indian Express| date=8 November 2020 | access-date=9 November 2020}}</ref>
* A [[computer font]] titled ''PuLa 100'', which mimicked his handwriting, was made available in 2020<ref>{{cite news |title=डिजिटल फॉन्टमधील पुलंच्या अक्षरलेखनाची जादू |url=https://www.loksatta.com/pune-news/literature-lovers-download-pula-deshpande-handwriting-in-digital-font-zws-70-2497124/ |access-date=14 June 2021 |work=[[Loksatta]] |date=June 12, 2021}}</ref>