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"name": "Sharifa Vijaliwala",
"bio": "\nSharifa Vijaliwala (born 4 August 1962) is an Indian Gujarati language writer, critic, translator and editor from Surat, Gujarat, India. She is a recipient of a 2018 Sahitya Akademi Award for Vibhajanni Vyatha, a collection of critical essays in Gujarati, and has won several Gujarat Sahitya Akademi awards for her literary work.\nSharifa Vijliwala was born to her parents, Kasambhai and Hajaraben, on 4 August 1962 in Amargadh, a village in Shihor, in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, India. She completed her primary education there, and passed her secondary and higher secondary board exams in 1978 and 1981 respectively. In 1985, she graduated from the Faculty of Technology and Engineering, at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda earning a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree. She worked as a pharmacist for five years. Because of her interest in literature, she had also joined the university's Gujarati department to study Gujarati literature in 1986. In 1990, she secured the first rank in the university and completed post graduation with a Kantawala Gold Medal. During her literature studies, she passed the National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) examination and secured a Junior Research Fellowship. In 1994, under the guidance of Shirish Panchal, she researched narratology. Vijliwala received a PhD for her dissertation Point of View in Short Stories: A Critical Study with Particular Reference to Some Gujarati Short Stories. She taught Gujarati literature at the M.T.B. Arts College, Surat from 1991 to 2013. Since 2013, Vijliwala has been a professor and head at the Department of Gujarati, at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University in Surat.",
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"name": "Shivkumar Joshi",
"bio": "Shivkumar Joshi (1916-1988) was a Gujarati language author from India. He was also stage actor and director. Born in Ahmedabad and lived in Calcutta, he was involved in literary activities. He wrote large number of plays, novels and short stories.\nShivkumar was born on 16 November 1916 at Ahmedabad to Sanskrit scholar Girijashankar Joshi. He acted in plays at early age of seven or eight when he was introduced in Natmandal, a stage troupe of Jaishankar Sundari. He completed his primary and secondary education from Ahmedabad and passed matriculation in 1933. He completed BA in Sanskrit from Gujarat College, Ahmedabad in 1937. He participated in Indian independence movement during his college days and was imprisoned for short period. He ran garment shop in partnership in Ahmedabad and Mumbai from 1937 to 1958. He started his own garment shop in Calcutta in 1958 and started participating in social, cultural, literature and stage activities. He was photographer and painter also. He died on 4 July 1988. His son Ruchir Joshi is also an author. He has 3 children from his first wife :Lt Mrs Sunanda Joshi. 1st born: Lt Mr Pranav Joshi, 2nd Born: Mrs Vandana Bhatt & 3rd Born: Mr Shyamal Joshi.\nHe wrote, directed and also acted in plays. Pankh Vinana Pareva ane Bija Natako (1952) was his first collection of one-act plays. His other collections of one-act plays are Anant Sadhna (1955), Sonani Hansadi Roopani Hansadi (1959), Neelanchal (1962), Neerad Chhaya (1966) and Ganga Vahe Chhe Aapni (1977). His plays mostly depict a conflict of the characters associated with urban life. They are social and introvert. His Be Takhta was an experimental play and he wrote a number of radio plays.",
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"name": "Shridhar Vyas",
"bio": "Shridhar Vyas was a 14th-15th century poet from western India. He is known for his historical and heroic poetry, Ranmall Chhand.\nThere is not much information regarding his personal life. Vyas is a designation of the Brahman performing religious tasks in royal households or society. He was probably an officer in royal court with this designation. K. M. Munshi portrays him as a poet patronized by the king.\nHe is associated with Ranmall, the Rathore Rajput ruler of Idar.",
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"name": "Shrikant Shah",
"bio": "Shrikant Vallabhdas Shah (29 December 1936 – 22 January 2020) was a Gujarati poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright from Gujarat, India, mainly known for his experimental novel Asti (1966).\nHe was born on 29 December 1936 in Bantva, a town in Junagadh district of Gujarat, to Vallabhdas and Vasantbahen. He completed schooling in his village Bantva. He completed Bachelor of Arts in 1959 and Master of Arts in 1961 from Bahauddin College, Junagadh with Psychology Subject.\nHe started his career as lecturer at H. K. Arts College, Ahmedabad in 1962-63. Thereafter, he served as an employment officer at Jamnagar, a manager of Jansatta daily at Rajkot and general manager of Jansatta at Ahmedabad. He retired as lecturer from Vivekanand College, Ahmedabad.",
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"name": "Shrimad Rajchandra",
"bio": "\nShrimad Rajchandra (11 November 1867 – 9 April 1901) was a Jain poet, mystic, philosopher, scholar, and reformer. Born in Vavaniya, a village near Morbi, he claimed to have recollection of his past lives at the age of seven. He performed Avadhāna, a memory retention and recollection test that gained him popularity, but he later discouraged it in favour of his spiritual pursuits. He wrote much philosophical poetry including Atma Siddhi. He also wrote many letters and commentaries and translated some religious texts. He is best known for his teachings on Jainism and his spiritual guidance to Mahatma Gandhi.\nShrimad Rajchandra was born on 11 November 1867 (Kartika Purnima, Vikram Samvat 1924), in Vavaniya, a port near Morbi (now in Gujarat, India). His mother, Devbai, was Svetambara Sthanakvasi Jain and his father, Ravjibhai Mehta and paternal grandfather, Panchan Mehta, were Vaishnava Hindu. So he was introduced to Jainism and Hinduism from early life. He was initiated in Vaishnavism by a Sadhu named Ramadasji. He continued to study other Indian religions and was attracted to Ahimsa (non-violence) doctrine of Jainism. Later, he chose Jainism because he considered that it provides \"best path to salvation\".",
"raw_bio": "Shrimad Rajchandra (11 November 1867 – 9 April 1901) was a Jain poet, mystic, philosopher, scholar, and reformer. Born in Vavaniya, a village near Morbi, he claimed to have recollection of his past lives at the age of seven. He performed Avadhāna, a memory retention and recollection test that gained him popularity, but he later discouraged it in favour of his spiritual pursuits. He wrote much philosophical poetry including Atma Siddhi. He also wrote many letters and commentaries and translated some religious texts. He is best known for his teachings on Jainism and his spiritual guidance to Mahatma Gandhi. Shrimad Rajchandra was born on 11 November 1867 (Kartika Purnima, Vikram Samvat 1924), in Vavaniya, a port near Morbi (now in Gujarat, India). His mother, Devbai, was Svetambara Sthanakvasi Jain and his father, Ravjibhai Mehta and paternal grandfather, Panchan Mehta, were Vaishnava Hindu. So he was introduced to Jainism and Hinduism from early life. He was initiated in Vaishnavism by a Sadhu named Ramadasji. He continued to study other Indian religions and was attracted to Ahimsa (non-violence) doctrine of Jainism. Later, he chose Jainism because he considered that it provides \"best path to salvation\".",
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"name": "Shyam Sadhu",
"bio": "Shyam Sadhu, born Shamaldas Muldas Solanki, was a Gujarati poet from India.\nSadhu was born on 15 June 1941 at Junagadh, Gujarat, to Muldas Solanki. His grandmother Motibai was a bhajan singer who had published a few audio records. He completed his primary education in Junagadh. He studied ayurveda for two years, but dropped out due to family problems. Sadhu started writing poems in 1955 at the age of 15. He eventually was associated with the local politics of Junagadh, but is most known for his poetry, which was first published 18 years after he started to write. Sadhu died on 16 December 2001.\nSadhu is considered to be one of the most important Gujarati ghazal poets. He experimented with new metres and used a conversational style in ghazal. Along with ghazals, he wrote free verse.",
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"name": "Sitanshu Yashaschandra",
"bio": "\nSitanshu Yashaschandra Mehta (born 19 August 1941), better known as Sitanshu Yashaschandra, is a Gujarati language poet, playwright, translator and academic from India.\nHe was the President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, in 1987 for his poetry collection Jatayu. Subsequently, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award by Government of India, in 2006.",
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"name": "Sukhlal Sanghvi",
"bio": "\nSukhlal Sanghvi (8 December 1880 – 2 March 1978), also known as Pandit Sukhlalji, was a Jain scholar and philosopher. He belonged to the Sthanakvasi sect of Jainism. Pandit Sukhlal lost his eyesight at the age of sixteen on account of smallpox. However, he persisted and became profoundly versed in Jain logic and rose to become a professor at Banaras Hindu University. Paul Dundas calls him one of the most incisive modern interpreters of Jain philosophy. Dundas notes that Sanghavi represents what now seems to be a virtually lost scholarly and intellectual world. He was a mentor for famous Jain scholar Padmanabh Jaini. During his lifetime he won such awards as the Sahitya Akademi Award and won recognition from the Government of India by getting Padma Bhushan award. Sukhlalji was also known as Pragnachaksu because he was so vastly learned despite being visually disabled.\nSukhlal was born in the village of Limli village of Surendranagar district, Gujarat on 8 December 1880 (fifth day of the bright day of the month of Margshirsh in Vikram Samvat 1937). He belonged to Visa Shrimali Vanik community (merchant community) of Gujarat. Talshi Sanghvi and his first wife Maniben were his parents. His mother died when he was four years old. He was raised in Limli by his distant relative, Muljibhai from Sayla. He lost his eyesight following small pox infection when he was sixteen. This made him more introspective and he devoted his life to learning.",
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"name": "Suman Shah",
"bio": "\nSuman Shah (Gujarati:સુમન શાહ) is a Gujarati language critic, short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor and translator from Gujarat, India. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2008 for his short story collection Fatfatiyun. He has written both in the modern and in the postmodern eras in Gujarati literature. He has authored more than 74 books, including 2 novels, 6 short story collections, 4 collections of creative essays, 6 translations into Gujarati from English and Hindi, 22 books on literary criticism and around 23 edited works of literary theory and modern Gujarati short stories and poems. He was honorary editor of Shabdasrishti from 1983 to 1986 and an editor of Khevna, a literary journal, from 1987 to 2009.\nShah was born on 1 November 1939 in Dabhoi, Vadodara district, Gujarat, to Govindlal and Kundanbahen. He took his primary education in Dabhoi Prathamik Shala. He finished his secondary education from Vibhag High School, Dabhoi in 1957. He joined M. S. University to obtain a Bachelor of Commerce, but left it for the Arts College in Dabhoi in 1959. He was graduated in 1962 with a major in Gujarati literature and a minor in Sanskrit. In 1964, he completed his Master of Arts in Gujarati and Sanskrit literature from M. S. University in Vadodara. Under the guidance of Mohanbhai Shankarbhai Patel, he obtained a PhD degree for his thesis Suresh Joshi: His Literature and its Impact upon Modern Gujarati Literature in 1978 from Gujarat Vidyapith.",
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"name": "Sumant Mehta",
"bio": "\nSumant Mehta (1 July 1877 – 15 December 1968) was a physician, independence activist and social worker from 20th-century India. Educated in London, he served as a personal physician of the Gaekwad rulers of Baroda State before entering public life in 1921. Along with his wife Sharda Mehta, he was involved in social and political activities.\nSumant Mehta was born in Surat on 1 July 1877 in a Vadnagara Nagar Brahmin family. His father Batukram Shobharam Mehta was a personal physician of the Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda State and had studied in England. His mother Dahigauri belonged to Surat. He was a grandson of social reformer Durgaram Mehta and a maternal grandson of Gujarati novelist Nandshankar Mehta.",
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"name": "Sundarji Betai",
"bio": "\nSundarji Gokaldas Betai (10 August 1905 – 16 January 1989) was Gujarati poet, critic and translator from India. Educated for a Masters in Gujarati, he taught Gujarati at SNDT Women's College for years. He was a prolific poet who had published nine poetry collections.\nBetai was born on 10 August 1905 in Bet Dwarka. He completed BA in English and Gujarati from University of Bombay in 1928, LLB in 1932 and MA in Gujarati and Sanskrit in 1936.",
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