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"name": "Esther David",
"bio": "\nEsther David (born 17 March 1945) is an Indian Jewish author, an artist and a sculptor. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.\nShe was born into a Bene Israel Jewish family in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. She won Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010 for The Book of Rachel.",
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"name": "Eva Dave",
"bio": "\nPraful Nandshankar Dave (5 March 1931 – 26 September 2009) was a Gujarati writer. He wrote under the pen name of Eva Dave. He primarily wrote novels and novellas.\nDave was born on 5 March 1931 in Baroda (now Vadodara), Gujarat, India . His family belonged to Nadiad. He completed his primary and secondary school education in Nadiad and started attending the university in 1949. He completed BA in Gujarati in 1953 and MA. in 1955. He completed BEd from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1956. He studied M. A. in Education in 1957 and PhD in 1963 from Washington University in St. Louis.",
"raw_bio": "Praful Nandshankar Dave (5 March 1931 – 26 September 2009) was a Gujarati writer. He wrote under the pen name of Eva Dave. He primarily wrote novels and novellas. Dave was born on 5 March 1931 in Baroda (now Vadodara), Gujarat, India . His family belonged to Nadiad. He completed his primary and secondary school education in Nadiad and started attending the university in 1949. He completed BA in Gujarati in 1953 and MA. in 1955. He completed BEd from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1956. He studied M. A. in Education in 1957 and PhD in 1963 from Washington University in St. Louis.",
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"name": "Father Vallés",
"bio": "\nCarlos González Vallés S.J., popularly known as Father Vallés (4 November 1925 – 8 November 2020), was a Spanish-Indian Jesuit priest and author. He lived in India for five decades and wrote extensively in Gujarati and on mathematics. He also wrote in English and Spanish. He was a recipient of the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak, the highest award in Gujarati literature, in 1978. He was awarded the Padma Shri posthumously in 2021.\nVallés was born 4 November 1925 in Logroño, Spain, to an engineer. When he was ten, his father died of Vincent's angina. Six months later, when the Spanish Civil War broke out, he fled his home, along with his mother and brother, and went to live with his mother's aunt, leaving everything behind. He attended a Jesuit school there along with his brother. He became a Jesuit novitiate when he was fifteen and was sent to India in 1949 as a missionary.",
"raw_bio": "Carlos González Vallés S.J., popularly known as Father Vallés (4 November 1925 – 8 November 2020), was a Spanish-Indian Jesuit priest and author. He lived in India for five decades and wrote extensively in Gujarati and on mathematics. He also wrote in English and Spanish. He was a recipient of the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak, the highest award in Gujarati literature, in 1978. He was awarded the Padma Shri posthumously in 2021. Vallés was born 4 November 1925 in Logroño, Spain, to an engineer. When he was ten, his father died of Vincent's angina. Six months later, when the Spanish Civil War broke out, he fled his home, along with his mother and brother, and went to live with his mother's aunt, leaving everything behind. He attended a Jesuit school there along with his brother. He became a Jesuit novitiate when he was fifteen and was sent to India in 1949 as a missionary.",
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"name": "Gangabai Yagnik",
"bio": "Gangabai Pranshankar Yagnik (1868–1937) was a Gujarati writer from 19th century India. A teacher and an Ayurveda-practitioner by profession, she wrote Hunnar Mahasagar (1898) which was a compilation of about 2080 trades, skills and tips for self-employment. She is considered as the first female Gujarati writer.\nGangabai Yagnik was born in 1868. She was native of Vavol (near Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India). Her husband died in 1881 when she was thirteen. She had refused to tonsure her head according to the custom of her time. She was sent to school by her sister where she completed her studies. She joined a primary school as an assistant teacher. She decided to study further and joined Mahalakshmi Female Training College, Ahmedabad. She left Vavol in 1887 and moved to Mansa where she was appointed a headmistress of Victoria Girl School. She was an entrepreneur who advocated swadeshi (local produce) and self-employment. She was an ayurveda-practitioner and treated gynecological problems as well. She established Garbhajivan Aushadhalaya, a hospital in Mansa, around 1879 and later started its branch at Ahmedabad.\nShe died in 1937. She had willed to give scholarships to students from the proceeds of her hospital after her death.",
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"bio": "Gangasati was a medieval saint poet of bhakti tradition of western India who composed several devotional songs in Gujarati language.\nNo authentic information regarding her life is available as her songs and life story were chiefly transmitted by oral traditions. According to traditional accounts, she was born in Sarvaiya(kshatriya Yadav clan of southern Saurashtra) Rajput family in Saurashtra district Bhavnagar, taluka palitana village Rajpara Gujarat state of India circa 12th to 14th century. She married Kahalsang Gohil or Kalubha Gohil of Samdhiala village near present-day Bhavnagar. He was a follower of Nijiya tradition of Bhakti Movement. The couple was religious and their home became centre of devotional activities which was small to house number of sadhus (ascetics) and people visiting. They moved to farm and built a hut where they continued their religious activities. According to traditional account, to prove his spiritual powers, Kalubha once resurrected a cow but later he regretted and decided to take samadhi and end his life. Gangasati urged him to let her take samadhi too but he refused and instructed her to wait until she had perfected Panbai in path of devotion. She agreed and composed devotional songs, bhajans, one per day for fifty two days to teach Panbai, the path of devotion. She took samadhi thereafter.\nShe composed these bhajans each with a theme and spiritual teaching like importance and grace of Guru, life of devotee, nature and words of Bhakti. They are composed as they are instructed to Panbai. Notably these bhajans do not mention any traditional Hindu deity but god in general, without any form or attributes. They reflect different aspects of way of spiritual attainment. Her bhajans are still popular in Saurashtra and are traditionally sung by devotional singers.",
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"name": "Geeta Parikh",
"bio": "\nGeeta Sooryakant Parikh (11 August 1929 – 7 April 2012) was an Indian poet who wrote in Gujarati. Educated in philosophy, she had published two poetry collections and a biography collection.\nGeeta Parikh was born on 11 August 1929 in Bhavnagar in a Jain family of Vijayaben and Paramanand Kapadia. Her father was a social worker and independence activist. She completed her primary and secondary school education from the Fellowship School in Bombay (now Mumbai). She matriculated in 1945. She completed BA in Entire Philosophy with second class in 1949 from the Wilson College and later MA in the same subject in 1952. In 1988, she received PhD for her thesis Arvachin Gujarati Kavayitrio (Modern Gujarati Women Poets) under Dhiru Parikh. She briefly taught in a college.",
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"name": "Ghanshyam Desai",
"bio": "Ghanshyam Occhavlal Desai was a Gujarati short story writer and editor from Gujarat, India.\nGhanshyam Desai was born on 4 June 1934 in Devgadh Baria (now in Dahod district, Gujarat) where he completed primary and secondary education. He went to Bombay (now Mumbai) and studied B. A. in Gujarati in 1954. He worked as a teacher at Gurukul High School, Songadh for two years. In 1960, he completed M. A. in Gujarati.\nHe worked as an assistant editor of Samarpan magazine (published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan) from 1962 to 1969 and later as an editor from 1970. When Samarpan merged with Navneet and became Navneet Samarpan, he became its editor in 1980 and worked there until retirement.",
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"name": "Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh",
"bio": "\nGhulam Mohammed Sheikh (born 16 February 1937) is a painter, poet and art critic from Gujarat, India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1983 and Padmabhushan in 2014 for his contribution in field of art.\nSheikh was born on 16 February 1937 in Surendranagar (now in Saurashtra region of Gujarat, India). He matriculated in 1955. He completed B. A. in Fine Art in 1959 and M. A. in 1961 from Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He received ARCA from Royal College of Art, London in 1966.",
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"name": "Gijubhai Badheka",
"bio": "\nGijubhai Badheka (15 November 1885 – 23 June 1939) was an educator who helped to introduce Montessori education methods to India. He is referred to as \"Moochhali Maa\" (\"mother with whiskers\"). Badheka was a high court lawyer, however, following the birth of his son in 1923, he developed an interest in childhood development and education. In 1920, Badheka founded the \"Bal Mandir\" pre-primary school. Badheka published a number of works in the field of education including Divaswapna (\"Daydreams\").\nBadheka was born in Chittal in the Saurashtra region of western India. His given (first) name was \"Girijashankar\". Badheka grew up in Bhavnagar, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. In 1907, he moved to East Africa and later, Bombay for work. Badheka died on 23 June 1939 in Bhavnagar, India.",
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"bio": "Girdhar or Giradhara (1787–1852) was an ancient Gujarati poet.\nGirdhar is known for his poetic epic Ramayana (1837) which is popular in Gujarat. He derived the story from Ramayana of Tulsidas and several other Puranic texts. His version is lucid and musical as it is in simple language and uses traditional metres and melodies. His poetry Radha Virahna Barmas is influenced by the poetry of Vaishnavism. His Tulsi Vivah narrates the wedding of Krishna and Tulsi in 26 lyrics. It resemble the Kadva (cantos) style of medieval Gujarati poetry. He also wrote lyrics on Gopi and Krishna relations and wrote Ashwamedha and Rajsuyayajna. He based a large number of his poems on Dasamskandha of Bhagavata.\n",
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"bio": "\nGovardhanram Madhavram Tripathi (pronounced (listen); 20 October 1855 – 4 January 1907) was an Indian Gujarati language novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for his four volume novel, Saraswatichandra, acclaimed as one of the masterpieces of Gujarati literature. The novel represents the life of Gujarat during the early part of 19th-century.\nGovardhanram was born in Vaishnav Vadnagara Nagar brahmin family on 20 October 1855 on the day of the Dashera festival at Nadiad, Bombay presidency (now in Gujarat), to his mother, Shivkashi, and his father, Madhavram. His ancestors for at least three generations were money-lenders. He took his primary education from the Buddhivardhak Gujarati Shala in Mumbai and Government English School at Nadiad. Thereafter, he joined Elphinstone High School from where he passed his matriculation examination in 1871. In the same year, he joined Elphinstone College to obtain his BA degree. He passed his BA examination at the second attempt, in 1875.",
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"name": "Gowriprasad Jhala",
"bio": "\nGowriprasad Chunilal Jhala (26 June 1907 – 11 January 1972) was a literary editor, researcher and translator from India.\nJhala was born on 26 June 1907 in Jam Kalyanpur in Nawanagar State (now Gujarat, India) in Nagar Brahmin family of Chunilal and Santokben. His family belonged to Nawanagar (now Jamnagar). He matriculated in 1924. He completed BA in 1928 and MA in 1930 from St. Xavier's College, Bombay.",
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