Ambaji Venkatesh Shinde was a prominent jewelry designer. The book "Harry Winston The Ultimate Jeweler" published in 1984 acknowledges Ambaji Venkatesh Shinde as “one of the most talented designers in the world today.” A number of his jewelry designs appear in this book.A.V.Shinde was born in 1917 in Mapusa, Goa, a Portuguese colony in India, in a Konkani speaking Hindu family.