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"name": "Swami Anand",
"bio": "\nSwami Anand (1887 – 25 January 1976) was a monk, a Gandhian activist and a Gujarati writer from India. He was the manager of Gandhi's publications such as Navajivan and Young India and inspired Gandhi to write his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. He wrote sketches, memoir, biographies, philosophy, travelogues and translated some works.\nSwami Anand was born Himmatlal on 8 September 1887 at Shiyani village near Wadhwan to Ramchandra Dave (Dwivedi) and Parvati in Audichya Brahmin family. His father was a teacher. He was among seven siblings. He was brought up and educated in Bombay. At the age of ten, he left home in opposition to marriage and due to an offer by a monk to show him God. He wandered for three years with several different monks. He took a vow of renunciation while still in his teens, took on the name Swami Anand and became a monk with the Ramakrishna Mission. He also lived at the Advaita Ashram where he studied.",
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"bio": "Swami Sachchidanand (22 April 1932), born as Nanalal Motilal Trivedi, is an Indian social reformer, philosopher, welfare activist, humanitarian, religious ascetic and writer from Gujarat, India. He was awarded the Narmad Suvarna Chandrak in 1984 and the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in 2022 by the Indian Government in the field of Literature and Education.\nSwami Sachchidanand was born on 22 April 1932 in Moti Chandur village in Patan district of Gujarat, India. At the age of 21, he left home and after travelling all over India, in 1956, he took the initiation of sanyasa to Swami Muktanandji 'Paramahansa' in Firozpur town of Punjab, India. His purvashram name was Nanalal Motilal Trivedi. In 1966, he received the degree of Vedantacharya from Varanasi Sanskrit University. In 1969, he established Sri Bhakti Niketan Ashram located in Dantali village in Anand district of Gujarat, India.\nMara Anubhavo (1985) and Videshyatrana prerak prasango (1985) are his biographical volumes. Bhartiya Darshano (1979), Sansar Ramayana (1984), Vedanta Samiksha (1987), Shrikrishnalila Rahasya, Mahabharat Sar, etc., are his spiritual and cultural texts. Pruthvi-Pradakhsina, Chin Mari Najre, Egypt-Israel, Afrika Pravasna Sansmarano, Shrilankani Safare, Purvama Navu Pashchim etc., are his travelogue. He wrote more than 100 books. Bhartiya Yuddhono Sankhshipt Itihas and Bharatma Angrejona Yuddho are his history based books. Chalo, Abhigam Badalie, Nava Vicharo, Aapane ane Pashchim, Rashtrana Salagata Prashno are collection of his essays on various subject. Many of his books are translated in Hindi and English.",
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"bio": "Swapnastha (13 November 1913 – 23 October 1970) was a Gujarati poet and story writer. His works were influenced by communism.\nBhanubhai/Laxminarayan Ranchhodbhai Vyas was born on 13 November 1913 in Rajkot (now in Gujarat). He matriculated and worked with Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Limited from 1936 to 1944. In 1948, he moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) and worked with Asopalav, Nootan Gujarat and Hindustan publications. Later he worked as a translator with the Publicity Department of USLR. He died on 23 October 1970.\nSwapnastha was a pseudonym of Vyas. He was an experimental and progressive poet who was influenced by communism and Karl Marx. He also came under the influence of Rabindranath Tagore. Love is the main theme of his poetry.",
"raw_bio": "Swapnastha (13 November 1913 – 23 October 1970) was a Gujarati poet and story writer. His works were influenced by communism. Bhanubhai/Laxminarayan Ranchhodbhai Vyas was born on 13 November 1913 in Rajkot (now in Gujarat). He matriculated and worked with Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Limited from 1936 to 1944. In 1948, he moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) and worked with Asopalav, Nootan Gujarat and Hindustan publications. Later he worked as a translator with the Publicity Department of USLR. He died on 23 October 1970. Swapnastha was a pseudonym of Vyas. He was an experimental and progressive poet who was influenced by communism and Karl Marx. He also came under the influence of Rabindranath Tagore. Love is the main theme of his poetry.",
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"name": "Taarak Mehta",
"bio": "\nTarak Janubhai Mehta (26 December 1929 – 1 March 2017) was an Indian columnist, humourist, writer and playwright who is best known for the column Duniya Ne Undha Chasma, and was a well-known figure in Gujarati theatre.\nHis humorous weekly column first appeared in Chitralekha in March 1971 and looked at contemporary issues from a different perspective. He published 80 books in his whole career.",
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"name": "Tarini Desai",
"bio": "\nTarini Desai (Gujarati: તારિણી દેસાઈ) is Gujarati short story writer from Gujarat, India.\nShe was born on 22 December 1935 at Baroda (now Vadodara) to Sudhaben and Rudrapratap Munshi. His family belonged to Petlad. She completed her primary and secondary education from Baroda. She completed B. A. in Philosophy and Psychology in 1957 from M. S. University and M. A. in Entire Philosophy from Wilson College, Bombay. She also obtained diploma in Indian classical music in 1956. She edited Kyarek, a literary magazine.",
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"name": "Theodore Hope",
"bio": "\nSir Theodore Cracraft Hope KCSI CIE (9 December 1831 – 4 July 1915), often referred to as T. C. Hope, was a British born civil servant of the Government of India. His duties included Public Works, and he was an active layman of the Anglican Church.\nBorn in 1831, Theodore Hope was the only child of Dr. James Hope, F.R.S., a wealthy physician at St George's Hospital, whose research in connection with heart disease was cut short by his death from consumption in middle life. Theodore's mother, Anne was an author. Hope was privately educated for the most part, with spells at Rugby School, and afterwards at Haileybury, then the East India Company's college. From frequent yachting practice abroad he was able to secure a master's certificate before he was 20; and when he joined the Bombay Civil Service in 1853 he spoke five European languages.",
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"name": "Tribhuvandas Luhar 'Sundaram'",
"bio": "\nTribhuvandas Purushottamdas Luhar, better known by his pen name Sundaram, (22 March 1908 – 13 January 1991), was a Gujarati poet and author from India.\nHe was born on 22 March 1908 at Miyan Matar, Bharuch, Bombay Presidency, British India. He completed his primary education in local school of Matar and five grades in English medium at Amod, Gujarat. Later he studied at Chhotubhai Purani's Rashtriya New English School, Bharuch. He graduated in languages from Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad in 1929. He started teaching in Gurukul at Songadh. He participated in Indian independence movement and was imprisoned for some time. He was associated with Jyotisangh, the women's organisation in Ahmedabad, from 1935 to 1945. He was introduced to Sri Aurobindo in 1945, and he moved to Pondicherry. He presided over Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1970. He died on 13 January 1991.",
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"name": "Udayan Thakker",
"bio": "\nUdayan Thakkar (Gujarati: ઉદયન ઠક્કર) is a Gujarati language poet, writer and translator from Mumbai, India.\nHis first anthology of poems is Ekavan (1987) which won him Jayant Pathak Poetry Prize. Sellara (2003), his second anthology, was awarded the Ushnas Prize (2002–03). His other significant works include Jugalbandhi (1995) and Udayan Thakker Na Chuntela Kavyo (2012; Selected poems of Udayan Thakker). He contributed to Gujarati children's literature. He is an editor of online poetry portal Poetry India.",
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"name": "Udayaratna",
"bio": "\nUdayaratna was a Jain monk and one of the leading Gujarati poets of 17th-18th century. He was a disciple of Shivaratna of Tapa Gaccha of Svetambara Jainism.\nHe had written large number of Rasas. Jambuswami Rasa (1693), Sthubhadra Rasa (1703), Navkara Rasa (1706), Malaysundara Rasa (1710), Yashodahara Rasa (1711), Lilavati Sumativilasa Rasa (1711), Bhuvanbhanu Kevalino Rasa (1713), Harivansha Rasa (1743) are some of them. He had also written large number of short poetry in the forms of Stavana, Sajjhaya and Sholaka. His Stavana of Shankheshwar Parshwanath and his Sajjhaya on four Kashayas (anger, pride, deceit and greed) are still sung by Jains.",
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"name": "Umashankar Joshi",
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"name": "Urmi Desai",
"bio": "\nUrmi Ghanshyam Desai (Gujarati: ઊર્મિ ઘનશ્યામ દેસાઈ; born 1938) is a Gujarati writer and linguist from Gujarat, India. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2017 for her critical work Gujarati Vyakaran Na Baso Varsh (published in 2014).\nShe was born on 5 April 1938 in Mumbai to her mother, Rambhabahen, and her father, Kameshwar Vyas. Her family originates from Chorvad. After matriculation in 1955, she completed her Bachelor of Arts (1961) and Master of Arts (1963) degrees on Gujarati and Sanskrit subjects. She received her PhD in 1967 under the supervision of Harivallabh Bhayani for her research work Gujarati Bhashana Angasadhak Pratyayo. In 1969, she completed her Diploma in Linguistics. She married Ghanshyam Desai, a Gujarati short story writer, in 1965.",
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"name": "Usha Upadhyay",
"bio": "\nUsha Ghanshyam Upadhyay (born 7 June 1956) is a Gujarati writer from Gujarat, India.\nShe was born on 7 June 1956 in Bhavnagar. She completed M. A. in Gujarati and later received Ph. D. She works as the Head of the Department of Gujarati in Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad. She is the vice president of the Gujarati Writers' Association.",
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