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"name": "Vinayak Adinath Buwa",
"bio": "Vinayak Adinath Buwa (Devanagari: विनायक आदिनाथ बुवा), also known as V. A. Buwa, (born July 4, 1925, died April 17, 2011) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India, known for his humorous stories and articles.\nThe following are some collections of his work:\n",
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"name": "Narayan Govind Chapekar",
"bio": "\nNarayan Govind Chapekar (Devanagari: नारायण गोविंद चापेकर; 1869–1968) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.\nHe was the editor of Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika (महाराष्ट्र साहित्यपत्रिका).",
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"bio": "Bahinabai Chaudhari (24 August 1880 – 3 December 1951) was a Marathi language poet from Jalgaon district of Bombay State, India. She became a noted poet posthumously.\nBahinabai was born in a Mahajan family at Asode in Khandesh region of the present-day Jalgaon district on the 24 August 1880, on the day of Naga Panchami. Her mother's name was Bhimai, and her father's name was Ukhaji Mahajan. She had three brothers - Ghama, Gana, and Ghana, and three sisters - Ahilya, Sita, and Tulsa. At the age of 13, in 1893, she was married to Nathuji Khanderao Chaudhari of Jalgaon. Following her husband's death in 1910, she led a very difficult life because of the economic, social, cultural, and emotional circumstances arising out of widowhood. She had a daughter named Kashi and two sons, Madhusudan and Sopandev (1907-1982).\nBahinabai composed her songs verbally in ovi (ओवी) metre in a mixture of two dialects: Khandeshi and Levaganboli. Her son Sopandev, who became a well-known poet, transcribed them. According to one account, Sopandev read the story of Savitri and Satyavan to his mother from his textbook, and by the next morning, she had composed a song of the tale. Impressed by her talent, he began writing down of her songs in a notebook. Her poetry is characterized as reflective and abstract with iconic and realist imagery. It captures the essence of her life, reflects the culture of village and farming life, and presents her wisdom.",
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"name": "Krushnashastri Chiplunkar",
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"name": "Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar",
"bio": "\nVishnushastri Chiplunkar (20 May 1850 – 17 March 1882) (Marathi : विष्णुशास्त्री कृष्णाशास्त्री चिपळूणकर Pronounced) was a Marathi writer, whose writings have had a decisive influence on modern Marathi prose style. He was the son of the writer and scholar Krushnashastri Chiplunkar.\nVishnushastri was born in Pune in a Chitpavan Brahmin family to the Sanskrit scholar Krishnashastri Chiplunkar. He obtained his B.A. from Deccan College, Pune in 1872 and worked as a schoolteacher in government schools during the years 1872–1879. In 1880, he founded (together with Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and Bal Gangadhar Tilak) the newspapers Kesari (केसरी, in Marathi) and Maratha (in English).He was also a co-founder The New English School in Pune.\nThese institutions intended to provide a more patriotically inclined education as opposed to the schools run by the government in British India.",
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"name": "Maruti Chitampalli",
"bio": "\nMaruti B. Chitampalli (Devanagari: मारुती चितम्पल्ली; born 5 November 1932) is a naturalist, wildlife conservationist and Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.\nThe birthdate of Maruti B. Chitampalli is given by him in his autobiography 'Chakvachandan' as 12 November 1932. \nHe grew up in Solapur and then went to enroll himself in State Forest Service College in Coimbatore. After completing his training, he joined the services with Maharashtra State government. During his professional life, he moved at various forests and national parks, having live experiences with various entities. This laid the foundation of his interest in writing his literary works, mostly in Marathi.\nHe retired from Maharashtra state government service as the Deputy Chief Conservator of Forests. He was instrumental in the development of Karnala Bird Sanctuary, Navegaon National Park, Nagzira Sanctuary and Melghat Tiger Project; also constructing orphanages for displaced wildlife at the last two institutions.",
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"name": "Dilip Purushottam Chitre",
"bio": "\nDilip Purushottam Chitre (17 September 1938 – 10 December 2009) was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a notable bilingual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a teacher, a painter, a filmmaker and a magazine columnist.\nChitre was born in Baroda on 17 September 1938 into a Marathi speaking CKP community. His father Purushottam Chitre used to publish a periodical named Abhiruchi. His grandfather, Kashinath Gupte was an expert on Tukaram and this served as Chitre's introduction to the poet. Chitre's family moved to Mumbai in 1951 and he published his first collection of poems in 1960. He was one of the earliest and the most important influences behind the famous \"little magazine movement\" of the sixties in Marathi. He started Shabda with Arun Kolatkar and Ramesh Samarth. In 1975, he was awarded a visiting fellowship by the International Writing Programme of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa in the United States. He has also worked as a director of the Indian Poetry Library, archive, and translation centre at Bharat Bhavan, a multi arts foundation. He also convened a world poetry festival in New Delhi followed by an international symposium of poets in Bhopal. He was educated both in Baroda and Mumbai.",
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"name": "Chokhamela",
"bio": "\nChokhamela (Marathi :चोखामेळा) was a Hindu saint in Maharashtra, India in the 14th century. He belonged to the Mahar caste,, which was considered that time one of the low castes in India. He was born at Mehuna Raja, a village in Deulgaon Raja Taluka of Buldhana district. He lived at Mangalvedha in Maharashtra. He wrote many Abhangas. One of his famous Abhangas is 'Abir Gulal Udhlit Rang\". Social activist Arvind Prabhakar Kayande Started Celebrating \"Chokhamela Festival\" in Deulgaon Raja. He was one of the first low-cast poets in India.\nChokhamela lived with his wife Soyarabai and son Karmamela in Mangalvedha. Chokhamela's task was to guard and work in farms of upper-caste people. His family also followed varkari sect.",
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"name": "Vaman Krushna Chorghade",
"bio": "Vaman Krushna Chorghade (Devanagari: वामन कृष्ण चोरघडे; 16 July 1914 – 1 December 1995) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He was born in Narkhed, Nagpur District and received a master's degree in Marathi and Economics, along with a bachelor's degree in education. His writings strongly reflected Gandhian philosophy.\nAs a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, Chorghade participated in India's movement for independence from the British Raj. He served for many years as an economics professor at a college in Wardha, before moving on to become the vice-principal of G. S. College of Commerce and Economics in Nagpur. For some time, he chaired the Text Books Board of Maharashtra state government.\nIn 1979, he presided over the 53rd Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (an annual conference for Marathi-language writers) at Chandrapur.",
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"name": "Vasant Abaji Dahake",
"bio": "Vasant Abaji Dahake (born March 30, 1942) is a Marathi poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India. In 2009, ee was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Chitralipi.\nHe was associated with the little magazine movement in Marathi during the mid-1950s and the 1960s. Dahake was the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Chandrapur in 2012. He is married and has two children.\nPoetry",
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"name": "Jaywant Dalvi",
"bio": "Jaywant Dalvi (14 August 1925 – 16 September 1994) was a prominent contemporary Marathi writer in Maharashtra.\nOriginally from Arawali, Sindhudurg district Maharashtra. He worked as an assistant editor at Marathi newspapers Prabhāt and Lokmānya, and later with USIS. As part of USIS efforts to make good English literature available in other languages, Dalvi selected texts and able translators, and helped the cause. He took an early retirement to concentrate on writing novels.\nHe is best remembered for his dramas, and a humorous column on Marathi literary personalities which he wrote under the pseudonym: ThanthanpaaL. Jaywant Dalvi had a long time friendly relations with noted Marathi literary couple Pu La Deshpande and Sunita Deshpande.",
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"name": "Hamid Dalwai",
"bio": "\nHamid Umar Dalwai (Marathi: हमीद उमर दलवाई; Urdu: حمید عمر دلوای; 29 September 1932 – 3 May 1977) was an Indian journalist, social reformer, thinker, activist, author, writer and the founder of Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal and Indian Secular Society. Despite being an atheist, he attempted and advocated for several modernistic and liberal reforms within the Indian Muslim community, most notably being his futile agitation against the practice of triple talaq and polygyny during the 1960s. He has also authored several books, including Muslim Politics in Secular India (1968).\nDalwai was born to a Marathi-speaking Muslim family on September 29, 1932 in Mirjoli village of Bombay Presidency (now Maharashtra) during the British Raj. He received secondary education at Chiplun. After his matriculation in 1951, he attended Ismail Yusuf College and Ruparel College in Mumbai. Between mid-1950s and early 1960s, he was introduced to the Samajwadi Party's political and cultural wing, Rashtra Seva Dal. He began writing short stories in magazines like Mauj, Satyakatha, and Vasudha.",
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