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"name": "Vijaya Rajadhyaksha",
"bio": "Vijaya Rajadhyaksha (Devanagari: विजया राजाध्यक्ष) (born 1933) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.\nShe studied at Rajaram College in Kolhapur, and obtained her doctorate from Mumbai University.\nRajadhyaksha taught Marathi literature at Elphinstone College affiliated with Mumbai University, and then served as the head of Marathi department in SNDT Women's University, also in Mumbai.",
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"name": "Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade",
"bio": "Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade (24 July 1863 – 31 December 1926), popularly known as Itihasacharya Rajwade, was a historian, scholar, writer, commentator and orator from Bombay Presidency, in British India. He is considered to be the first in real sense to undertake an immense research of Maratha history by visiting hundreds of villages and historical places all over India and gathering thousands of historical papers. He was also a commentator on various aspects of world history. He was the founder member of Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal, Pune. His students include historians like Datto Vaman Potdar, Vasudeo Sitaram Bendrey and G. H. Khare.\nThe historian, Ram Sharan Sharma says: \"With his unadulterated passion for research, V.K.Rajwade went from village to village in Maharashtra in search of Sanskrit manuscripts and sources of Maratha history; which were published in twenty-two volumes.\"\nRajwade should not be confused with \"Ahitagni\" Shankar Ramchandra Rajwade, the Vedic scholar.",
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"raw_bio": "Samarth Ramdas (c. 1608 – c. 1681), also known as Sant Ramdas or Ramdas Swami, was an Indian Hindu saint, philosopher, poet, writer and spiritual master. He was a devotee of the Hindu deities Rama and Hanuman. Ramdas or previously Narayan was born at Jamb, a village in present-day Jalna district, Maharashtra on the occasion of Rama Navami, probably in 1608 CE. He was born into a Marathi Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family to Suryajipanta and Ranubai Thosar. His father was thought to have been a devotee of the Vedic deity, Surya. Ramdas had an elder brother named Gangadhar. His father died when Narayan was only seven years of age. He turned into an introvert after the demise of his father and would often be noticed to be engrossed in thoughts about the divine.",
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"name": "Mahadev Govind Ranade",
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"name": "Purushottam Shivaram Rege",
"bio": "\nPurushottam Shivaram Rege (Devanagari: पुरुषोत्तम शिवराम रेगे) (02 - August - 1910 to 17 - February - 1978 ) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.\nHe, commonly known by his initials Pu Shi Rege, was born in Ratnagiri District, Bombay Presidency, British India in 1910. After receiving his degrees in economics from Mumbai and London universities, he taught that subject at various colleges in Maharashtra and Goa. He retired in the 1970s as the principal of Elphinstone College in Mumbai.",
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"name": "Vasant Sabnis",
"bio": "\nVasant Sabnis (Devanagari: वसंत सबनीस) (1923 - 2002) was an Indian Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.\nSabnis was born on 6 December 1923. He received his high school education in Pandharpur and college education in Pune. After graduation, he joined Maharashtra state government's information and public relations department.",
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"name": "Arun Sadhu",
"bio": "Arun Sadhu (Devanagari: अरुण साधु) (17 June 1941 – 25 September 2017) was a writer and a freelance journalist from Maharashtra, India. He has written in Marathi, Hindi, and English. He is better known for his novel \"Simhasan\" and \"Mumbai Dinank\".\nHe was born and brought up in Achalpur (twin town of Paratwada) in Amravati District of Vidarbha region in Maharashtra.\nIn his earlier career, Sadhu worked in different capacities on the staff of a few national English newspapers and then served for six years as a professor and the head of the Department of Communication and Journalism at Pune University. As a political reporter, he started his journalistic career at Marathi daily ‘Kesri’ in Pune in the 1960s. In his three-decade- long journalistic career, he worked for the Statesman, The Times of India, The Indian Express and the Free Press Journal in Mumbai and was a stronger for Time magazine.",
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"name": "Bal Gangadhar Samant",
"bio": "\nBal Gangadhar Samant (27 May 1924 – 18 January 2009) was an Indian writer. He wrote around 80 books in Marathi on a wide range of topics from fiction, biography, Marathi dramas and history. His books include a biography of Richard Francis Burton, (titled Shapith Yaksha), Hitler, Deenanath Mangeshkar, Marathi natyasangeet, reincarnation, Bal Gandharva, elephants (titled Gajaraja), death and many more.\nSaprem Namaskar (सप्रेम नमस्कार) and Shapit Yaksha (शापित यक्ष) are two of his works.",
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"name": "Geeta Janardan Sane",
"bio": "\nGeeta Janardan Sane (Devanagari: गीता जनार्दन साने) (1907–1991) was a feminist writer from Maharashtra, India.\nSane was born in Amravati. Her father was a teacher who later trained to be a lawyer. Both parents of Sane were progressive in their thinking. They conducted their daughters' weddings without any religious rituals. The weddings \"must have cost a rupee and a half, each,\" Sane once said.",
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"name": "Pandurang Sadashiv Sane",
"bio": "\nPandurang Sadashiv Sane (Marathi pronunciation: pronunciation) ; 24 December 1899 – 11 June 1950), also known as Sane Guruji (Guruji meaning \"respected teacher\") by his students and followers, was a Marathi author, teacher, social activist and freedom fighter from Maharashtra, India. He is referred to as the National Teacher of India.\nSane was born on 24 December 1899 to Sadashivrao and Yashodabai Sane in Palgad village near Dapoli town, Bombay State in British India (in present-day Ratnagiri district of the Konkan region of Maharashtra state). He was their third child and second son. His father, Sadashivrao, was a revenue collector traditionally referred to as a khot, who evaluated and collected village crops on behalf of the government, and was allowed to keep twenty-five percent of his collections as his own share. The family was relatively well off during Sane's early childhood, but their financial condition later deteriorated, leading to their house being confiscated by government authorities. Unable to face the trauma and hardship, Sane's mother Yashodabai died in 1917. His mother's death due to a lack of medical facilities as well as his inability to meet her at her deathbed would haunt Sane Guruji for the rest of his life.",
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"name": "Indira Sant",
"bio": "Indira Sant (Marathi: इंदिरा संत; 4 January 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.\nIndira studied at Rajaram College in Kolhapur. In 1940, four years after their marriage, the two published a joint collection of their poems titled Sahawas (सहवास).\nSemi-autobiographical articles by Sant were published in 1986 in a book titled Mrudgandha (मृद्गंध). The book Phulwel (फुलवेल) contains a collection of her essays.",
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"name": "Vilas Sarang",
"bio": "\nVilas Sarang (Devanagari: विलास सारंग) (1942–2015) is a modernist Indian writer, critic and translator.\nSarang's stories have appeared in the UK, US, Canada and India in journals such as Encounter, The London Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Malahat Review, and also in the anthologies New Writing in India (Penguin), The Penguin Book of Horror Stories and New Directions No. 41. His published books in English include a collection of stories, Fair Tree of the Void, and two novels, In the Land of Enki and The Dinosaur Ship.",
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