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"name": "Sanjay Chhel",
"bio": "\nSanjay Chhel is an Indian film director, writer and lyricist.\nSanjay Chhel was born on 14 October 1967 at Dwarka in Gujarat, India. He spent his childhood in Mumbai. He is son of art director and production designer Chhel Vayeda.",
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"bio": "Sanju Vala (Gujarati: સંજુ વાળા, b. 11 July 1960) is a Gujarati poet and critic of postmodernism from Gujarat, India. He authored more than 10 books and received numerous literary awards.\nSanju Vala was born in Badhada (Savarkundla) village in Amreli district of Gujarat, to Naranbhai and Ranima. He completed his primary education from Badhada Primary School in 1976. He completed schooling in 1979 from J.V Modi Highschool, Savarkundla. He dropped out of college after studying for a year.\nSanju Vala joined the revenue department of the Government of Gujarat in 1979. He served as a member in working committee of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad from 2012 to 2014. He was a member of the working committee of Vali Gujarati Gazalkendra run by Gujarat Sahitya Akademi. He wrote columns for several newspapers, such as Janmabhoomi and Phulchhab. His poems were published in several literary magazines including Shabdasrishti, Parab, Sameepe, Etad, Parivesh, Navneet Samarpan and Gazalvishwa. As a poet, he organised and participated in mushairas, poet meetings and lectures on poetry appreciation and criticism. He has written poetry and its criticism. He has authored more than 10 books and received numerous literary awards.",
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"name": "Sanskritirani Desai",
"bio": "\nSanskritirani Desai is Gujarati poet from India.\nSanskritirani was born in Baroda (now Vadodara) on 1 October 1958 to Sudhir Desai and Tarini Desai who were Gujarati writers. Her sister Dhvani Desai is also poet and filmmaker. She studied for an M. A. in Statistics, M. B. A. in Finance and Diploma in Management Studies. She works as the General Manager in the Information Technology Department of a Public Limited Company. She knows Gujarati, Hindi, English, Marathi, Bengali, Sanskrit and Russian languages. She is a painter, swimmer, dancer as well as karateka.",
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"name": "Sarojini Mehta",
"bio": "\nSarojini Mehta (1898-1977) was a Gujarati short story writer from Gujarat, India.\nShe was born in 1898 to Ramanbhai Nilkanth and Vidyagauri Nilkanth who were social reformers and writers. She graduated in 1919 and studied sociology in 1923 from London School of Economics. She served as a superintendent at the Vanita Vishram, Ahmedabad. She married Nanak Mehta, younger brother of Sumant Mehta.",
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"name": "Saroop Dhruv",
"bio": "\nSaroop Dhruv (born 19 June 1948) is an educator, poet and activist from Gujarat, India.\nShe was born in Ahmedabad on 19 June 1948. She completed B. A. in Gujarati and Sanskrit from St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad in 1969 and M. A. from School of Languages, Gujarat University in 1971. She received Ph. D. from Gujarat Vidyapith in 1976 for her dissertation, Motif no Abhyas Ane Ketlik Pasand Kareli Gujarati Lokkathama Teni Tapas (Study of Motifs and its Research in Selected Gujarati Folktales). She was a Gujarati language teacher at St. Xavier's Education Center from 1974.",
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"name": "Shahabuddin Rathod",
"bio": "\nShahabuddin Rathod is a Gujarati scholar, teacher and humorist. He was awarded Padma Shri in the field of literature and education in 2020.\nShahabuddin Rathod was born on 8 December 1937 at Thangadh (now in Surendranagar district, Gujarat, India). He was born and raised in a Gujarati Muslim family. He was a teacher from 1958 to 1971 and a school principal from 1971 to 1996. In addition to a good knowledge about his Islamic background and faith, he has also learned about Sanskrit language and Hinduism.",
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"name": "Shamal Bhatt",
"bio": "Shamal Bhatt (Gujarati: શામળ ભટ્ટ) was a Gujarati narrative poet of the medieval Gujarati literature. He is known for his \"padya-vaarta\" (narrative poetry).\nThe dates of his birth differ according to sources. He was born either in 1694 or in 1766. His father's name was Vireshwar and mother's name was Anandibai. Nana Bhatt was his teacher. He was born in Veganpur (Now Gomtipur in Ahmedabad). He had difficulty in earning due to competition of traditional story-teller Puranis and Bhavaiyas who performed Bhavai. Thus he has drawn stories from his predecessors and reinterpreted them in popular form to captivate his audience. He later moved to Sinhuj (near Mahemdavad now) on request and help of Rakhidas, a landlord. He died either in 1769 or in 1765.\nShamal has composed 26 works. His narrative poetry was based on many Sanskrit works of his predecessors and folk tales. He adapted them in narrative poetry and added his imagination. Some of those Sanskrit works are Simhasana Dvatrinshika, Vetalpanchvinshanti, Shukasaptati, Bhojaprabandha. His prominent works are Simhasana Battisi, Vetal Pachchisi, Suda Bahoteri. All three of these works had format of tales within tales. They have many magical and imaginative things like transportation of souls, flying shoes and speaking animals. Vikram was the lead character in them. They also contained riddles and aphorisms. His other works include Nand-Batrisi, Shukadevakhyan, Rakhidas Charitra, Vanechar ni Varta, Panch-danda, Bhadra-Bhamini, Rewa-Khand, Chandra-Chandraawati, Madan-Mohana, Padmavati, Baras Kasturi. Chhappas (six stanza epigrams) are incorporated in these tales which describe wisdom and wit.",
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"bio": "Shankarlal Gangashankar Shastri (2 May 1902 – 1 June 1946) was a Gujarati literary critic and short-story writer. He was an elder brother of Hariprasad Shastri and a grandson of Vrajlal Shastri.\nShastri was born into a Sathodara Nagar Brahmin family on 2 May 1902 at Chunel, a village near Nadiad in Bombay Presidency, British India. He was the second son of Gangashankar Shastri, a physician and ritualist. His younger brother Hariprasad Shastri was also a Gujarati writer, historian and indologist.\nShastri completed his primary education in Malataj and his secondary education in Sojitra. After passing his matriculation in 1919, he joined Gujarat College, from which he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1923 and Master of Arts in 1925 with Sanskrit and Gujarati subjects. He received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1929.",
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"name": "Shankar Painter",
"bio": "Shankar Painter (born Shankarbhai Savabhai Parmar; 17 November 1946 – 8 December 2020) was a Gujarati-language poet and writer from Gujarat, India.\nShankar Painter was born on 17 November 1946 in Brahmanwada village of Patan district. He was a native of Varshila, a village in Siddhpur. He studied up to 11 standard, and worked as an executive engineer in O.N.G.C. Mahesana Project.\nHe died on 8 December 2020 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He is survived by his wife, three sons and a daughter.",
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"name": "Shanta Gandhi",
"bio": "\nShanta Kalidas Gandhi (20 December 1917 – 6 May 2002) was an Indian theatre director, dancer and playwright who was closely associated with IPTA, the cultural wing of the Communist Party of India. She studied with Indira Gandhi at a residential school in the early 1930s, and remained close to the prime minister in later life. She received many government awards and sinecures under the Indira Gandhi administration, including the Padma Shri (1984) and being made chairperson of the National School of Drama (1982–84).\nShe was the sister of actress Dina Pathak (née Gandhi) and Tarla Gandhi, also a stage performer.",
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"name": "Sharda Mehta",
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