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"name": "Rajendra Banhatti",
"bio": "\nRajendra Banhatti (Devanagari: राजेन्द्र बनहट्टी) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He is the son of famous Marathi writer and biographer Shrinivas Narayan Banhatti. He has completed his MA in English and MA in Psychology. He was the director of Suvichar Publishing House in Pune. Banhatti has been awarded the Maharashtra State Literary Award four times for his books.\nHe was the president of Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad and also the member of Akhil Bhartiya Marathi Sahitya Mahamandal. He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Pune in 2002.",
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"name": "Vasant Vaman Bapat",
"bio": "Vishwanath Vaman Bapat, also known as Vasant Bapat (Devanagari: वसंत बापट; July 25, 1922 – September 17, 2002), was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.\nHe was born on July 25, 1922 in Karad in Satara district of Maharashtra.\nBapat received a master's degree in Marathi and Sanskrit literature from Sir Parshurambhau College in Pune in 1948. He then taught Sanskrit and Marathi until 1976, first, National College and then Ramnarain Ruia College, both in Mumbai. During 1974-1982, he served as the Rabindranath Tagore Chair at Mumbai University.",
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"name": "Malati Vishram Bedekar",
"bio": "\nMalati Vishram Bedekar (18 March 1905 – 7 May 2001) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. She was the first prominent feminist writer in Marathi literature. She also used pseudonym Vibhavari Shirurkar \nBalutai Khare was Bedekar's maiden name. She was the daughter of Anantrao and Indirabai Khare.",
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"bio": "\nVishwanath Chintamani Bedekar (1906–1998), who professionally used the name Vishram Bedekar, was an Indian Marathi-language writer and film director.\nBedekar was born on August 13, 1906 in Amravati. After receiving his college degree in Amravati, he went to Nagpur for his post-graduate studies. During his college days, he was drawn to English literature and theater. He moved to Pune in the 1930s. In 1938, he married Malati Bedekar, (whose maiden name was Balutai Khare).",
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"name": "Vasudeo Sitaram Bendrey",
"bio": "\nVasudeo Sitaram Bendrey (Marathi: , abbr. Va. Si. Bendre) (13 February 1894 – 16 July 1986) was historian, author, editor, translator and publisher in Marathi language. He is known as Bhishmacharya of Marathi History. He dedicated his work for research in Maharashtra history and wrote, edited and translated over 60 books on different history topics.\nHe is well known for searching first known image of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Before this image, the look of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was not known to people.",
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"name": "Durga Bhagwat",
"bio": "\nDurga Narayan Bhagwat (10 February 1910 – 7 May 2002), popularly known as Durga Bhagwat, was an Indian scholar, socialist and writer. She studied Sanskrit and Buddhist literature and spent time in the jungles of Madhya Pradesh to study tribal life. She later returned to Mumbai as a researcher and wrote books in Marathi. She is arguably the foremost female writer in Marathi. Shes one amongst the prominent writers who opposed The Emergency (India). She also abstained from accepting such institutional and civilian honours as the Padma Shree and the Jnanapeeth.\nDurga Bhagwat was born in 1910 in a Karhade Brahmin family settled in the then princely state of Baroda. The veteran Sanskrit scholar and social activist Rajaram Shastri Bhagwat was the brother of her grandmother. Her sister Kamala Sohonie went on to become the first woman scientist of India. Her father was a scientist who discovered the procedure of making ghee from oil.",
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"name": "Suresh Shridhar Bhat",
"bio": "\nSuresh Bhat (Marathi: सुरेश भट; 15 April 1932 – 14 March 2003) was a Marathi poet from the state of Maharashtra, India.\nBhat was born in a Karhade Brahmin family in Amravati, Maharashtra to Shridhar Bhat, a physician. His mother was fond of poetry and made young Bhat learn famous Marathi poems by heart. He later acknowledged this practice to be a key influence in the development of his poetic abilities.Bhat completed his education in Amravati, and earned a B.A. degree in 1955. According to him, his poems were the only source of comfort for him during such times of bitterness and depression.",
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"name": "Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave",
"bio": "\nPurushottam Bhaskar Bhave (Devanagari: पुरुषोत्तम भास्कर भावे) (12 April 1910 – 13 August 1980) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.\nBhave lost his mother when he was just nine years old. His father Bhaskar Haree Bhave was a military doctor. Bhave and his brother were taken by his maternal grandparents to Malakapur, where they grew up. Bhave was never on good terms with his father, a strict disciplinarian who threw him out of home at least twice.",
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"name": "Vinayak Narahari Bhave",
"bio": "\nVinayak Narahari Bhave, also known as Vinoba Bhave (pronunciation; 11 September 1895 – 15 November 1982), was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya (Teacher in Sanskrit), he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered as National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. He was an eminent philosopher. The Gita has been translated into the Marathi language by him with the title Geetai (meaning 'Mother Gīta' in Marathi).\nVinayak Narahari Bhave was born on 11 September 1895 in a small village called Gagoji (present-day Gagode Budruk) in Kolaba in the Konkan region of what is now Maharashtra. Vinayaka was the eldest son of Narahari Shambhu Rao and Rukmani Devi. The couple had five children; four sons named Vinayaka (affectionately called Vinya), Balakrishna, Shivaji and Dattatreya, and one daughter. His father was a trained weaver with a modern rationalist outlook and worked in Baroda. Vinayaka was brought up by his grandfather, Shamburao Bhave and was greatly influenced by his mother Rukmini Devi, a religious woman from Karnataka. Vinayaka was highly inspired after reading the Bhagavad Gita, at a very young age.",
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"bio": "Vishnudas Bhave (d. 9 August 1901) and was the leading dramatist of Maharashtra, India and considered as pioneer of Marathi theatre. He was born in Sangli and he staged the first Marathi-language play Sita Swayamvar in Sangli in 1843. In this venture, Bhave was supported by the then king of the princely state of Sangli. After the success of the play Sita Swayamvar, Bhave staged plays on various other episodes of the Ramayana. He traveled with his troupes for the plays. He also ventured into puppet shows. Bhave died on 9 August 1901.\nIn Maharashtra, the commercial theatrical activity began in 1843 with Bhave's company Sanglikar Natak Mandali. The drama company was initially influenced by English plays. Bhave acted as playwright, director and organiser of the plays. He also set up a drama school in Sangli. In 1853, Bhave came to Mumbai and in the beginning he staged his \"Khel-Akhyan\" (play-narrations in verse) and plays in the wada of Vishvanath Shimpi in the Girgaum locality of the city. The stories of his plays were rooted in Hindu mythological and religious literature. Songs and music were the strengths of Bhave's dramas. His play Sita Swayamvar became very popular and received much encomium. For the most part, Bhave's plays were one-man shows, with other cast playing strictly supporting and secondary roles only when their presence was needed. The tradition of full-fledged drama was revived much later in 1880s by Annasaheb Kirloskar, who is credited more often than Bhave as the pioneer of Marathi theatre.\nThe King of the princely state of Sangli, Chintamanrao 'Appa Saheb' Patwardhan gave his patronage and encouragement to Bhave, who had extended his drama activity to Mumbai and Pune.",
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"name": "Balakrishna Bhagwant Borkar",
"bio": "\nBalakrishna Bhagwant Borkar (30 November 1910 – 8 July 1984) was a poet from Goa, India.\nBā Bha Borkar, also known as Ba-ki-baab, started writing poems at an early age. The author Vi SA Khandekar was an early champion of Borkar's poetry. Borkar joined Goa's fight for freedom in the 1950s and moved to Pune, where he worked for the radio. Most of his literature is written in Marathi, though his Konkani output is also considerable. He excelled as a prose writer as well.\nHis long poems Mahatmayan, an unfinished poem dedicated to Gandhi), and TamaHstotra (upon the possibility of blindness due to diabetes and old age) are famous.\nOne of his famous poems is \"Mazha Gaav\", meaning \"My village\".",
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