{"count":17752,"next":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=836","previous":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=834","results":[{"id":14439,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Vyankatesh Digambar Madgulkar","bio":"\nVenkatesh Digambar Madgulkar (5 April 1927 – 28 August 2001) was one of the most popular Marathi writers of his time. He became well-known mainly for his realistic writings about village life in a part of southern Maharashtra called Maandesh, set in a period of 15 to 20 years before and after Independence. He was often called Tatya (\"old man\", or \"grand old man\" in Marathi) by his admirers, friends and family.\nMadgulkar was born in the village of Madgul in Sangli District of Maharashtra. His father was in the employment of the government of the Aundh princely state. His brother was the poet G. D. Madgulkar.","raw_bio":"Venkatesh Digambar Madgulkar (5 April 1927 – 28 August 2001) was one of the most popular Marathi writers of his time. He became well-known mainly for his realistic writings about village life in a part of southern Maharashtra called Maandesh, set in a period of 15 to 20 years before and after Independence. He was often called Tatya (\"old man\", or \"grand old man\" in Marathi) by his admirers, friends and family. Madgulkar was born in the village of Madgul in Sangli District of Maharashtra. His father was in the employment of the government of the Aundh princely state. His brother was the poet G. D. Madgulkar.","slug":"vyankatesh-digambar-madgulkar","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Unknown","url":"/sootradhar/vyankatesh-digambar-madgulkar","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:18:59.962512","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14440,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar","bio":"Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar (Marathi: गजानन त्र्यंबक माडखोलकर) (December 28, 1900 – November 27, 1976) was a Marathi novelist and a literary critic from Maharashtra, India.\nMadkholkar was born on December 28, 1900, in Mumbai. His father, a Karhade Brahmin priest who was financially well-off, brought up Madkholkar in a strict, highly orthodox Hindu environment.\nAt his age 18, Madkholkar failed in the high school matriculation examination, and abandoned his formal studies. However, he extensively read Marathi, Sanskrit, and English  literature. He also carefully studied the history of Italy and Ireland.","raw_bio":"Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar (Marathi: गजानन त्र्यंबक माडखोलकर) (December 28, 1900 – November 27, 1976) was a Marathi novelist and a literary critic from Maharashtra, India. Madkholkar was born on December 28, 1900, in Mumbai. His father, a Karhade Brahmin priest who was financially well-off, brought up Madkholkar in a strict, highly orthodox Hindu environment. At his age 18, Madkholkar failed in the high school matriculation examination, and abandoned his formal studies. However, he extensively read Marathi, Sanskrit, and English  literature. He also carefully studied the history of Italy and Ireland.","slug":"gajanan-tryambak-madkholkar","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Unknown","url":"/sootradhar/gajanan-tryambak-madkholkar","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:18:59.975943","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14441,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani","bio":"\nRao Bahadur Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani (Marathi: विष्णु मोरेश्वर महाजनी) (12 November 1851 – 16 February 1923) was a Marathi poet and playwright from Maharashtra, India.\nMahajani was born on 12 November 1851 in Pune. He studied at Deccan College in Pune to receive his master's degree in 1873. He then served for a few years as a teacher in Akola. He was awarded Rao Bahadur in 1913.","raw_bio":"Rao Bahadur Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani (Marathi: विष्णु मोरेश्वर महाजनी) (12 November 1851 – 16 February 1923) was a Marathi poet and playwright from Maharashtra, India. Mahajani was born on 12 November 1851 in Pune. He studied at Deccan College in Pune to receive his master's degree in 1873. He then served for a few years as a teacher in Akola. He was awarded Rao Bahadur in 1913.","slug":"vishnu-moreshwar-mahajani","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Unknown","url":"/sootradhar/vishnu-moreshwar-mahajani","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:18:59.997126","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14442,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Mahipati","bio":"\nMahipati (1715 - 1790)  was an 18th century Marathi language hagiographer who wrote biographies of prominent Hindu Vaishnava sants who had lived between the 13th and the 17th centuries in Maharashtra and other regions of India.\nMahipati  was born in a Marathi Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family of Shakala Shakha and Vasishta gotra to Dadopant Kamble who was the hereditary Kulkarni (record keeper)  of Taharabad in present day Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. Dadopant and his wife were devotees of Vithoba of Pandharpur.\nAfter his father's death, he inherited the job of Kulkarni for Taharabad. He  also worked for a local Mughal landlord. After falling out with his landlord, Mahipati devoted the rest of his life to performing Kirtans on lives of saints, collecting information on these saints and writing their hagiographies.","raw_bio":"Mahipati (1715 - 1790)  was an 18th century Marathi language hagiographer who wrote biographies of prominent Hindu Vaishnava sants who had lived between the 13th and the 17th centuries in Maharashtra and other regions of India. Mahipati  was born in a Marathi Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family of Shakala Shakha and Vasishta gotra to Dadopant Kamble who was the hereditary Kulkarni (record keeper)  of Taharabad in present day Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. Dadopant and his wife were devotees of Vithoba of Pandharpur. After his father's death, he inherited the job of Kulkarni for Taharabad. He  also worked for a local Mughal landlord. After falling out with his landlord, Mahipati devoted the rest of his life to performing Kirtans on lives of saints, collecting information on these saints and writing their hagiographies.","slug":"mahipati","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Unknown","url":"/sootradhar/mahipati","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:19:00.272021","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14443,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Laxman Bapu Mane","bio":"\nLaxman Bapu Mane (born 1 June 1949) is a Marathi writer and a social activist from Maharashtra, India.  Mane came to sudden fame after publishing his autobiography Upara (An Outsider), in 1980.  Upara was considered as a milestone in Marathi Dalit literature and received Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981 and Padma Shri in 2009. He is a former member of Maharashtra's legislative council.\nMane was born on 1 June 1949 in a small village Somanthali, Phaltan (Maharashtra) in a nomadic tribe in India.  He wrote his autobiography (Upara) in 1980, for which he received the Sahitya Akadami award in 1981.","raw_bio":"Laxman Bapu Mane (born 1 June 1949) is a Marathi writer and a social activist from Maharashtra, India.  Mane came to sudden fame after publishing his autobiography Upara (An Outsider), in 1980.  Upara was considered as a milestone in Marathi Dalit literature and received Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981 and Padma Shri in 2009. He is a former member of Maharashtra's legislative council. Mane was born on 1 June 1949 in a small village Somanthali, Phaltan (Maharashtra) in a nomadic tribe in India.  He wrote his autobiography (Upara) in 1980, for which he received the Sahitya Akadami award in 1981.","slug":"laxman-bapu-mane","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Unknown","url":"/sootradhar/laxman-bapu-mane","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:19:00.295867","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14444,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Ramesh Mantri","bio":"\nRamesh Mantri (Devanagari: रमेश मंत्री) (1927–1997) was a Marathi writer primarily of humor from Maharashtra, India.\nHe attended Rajaram College in Kolhapur from where he graduated. He also spent some time in the UK in connection with higher education on a Commonwealth programme.","raw_bio":"Ramesh Mantri (Devanagari: रमेश मंत्री) (1927–1997) was a Marathi writer primarily of humor from Maharashtra, India. He attended Rajaram College in Kolhapur from where he graduated. He also spent some time in the UK in connection with higher education on a Commonwealth programme.","slug":"ramesh-mantri","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Unknown","url":"/sootradhar/ramesh-mantri","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:19:00.313930","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14446,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Shripad Mahadev Mate","bio":"Shripad Mahadev Mate (2 September 1886–25 December 1957) was a Marathi writer and a social reformer from Bombay State, India.\nMate was a teacher of English and Marathi literature by profession. Although he took up writing at the relatively late age of forty-four, during the remainder of his life he wrote eclectically and copiously on a variety of social, scientific, biographical and historical subjects. He was deeply troubled by the social scourge of untouchability in contemporary India, and wrote several short stories as well as essays arguing for the abolition of this practice. Although he was a Brahmin by birth and retained a spiritual affinity for the cultural and religious tenets of Hinduism, his writings show his sustained scepticism towards many of its dogmas.\nMate was born in the town of Shirpur in Vidarbha. He went to New English School, Satara and acquired his university education (up to an M.A.) in Pune. For a few years, he served as a teacher at the Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya, Pune and later as a professor at Sir Parshurambhau College. His son Madhukar Mate (born 1930) was an eminent archaeologist with expertise in medieval India. \nMate presided over the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Sangli in 1943.","raw_bio":"Shripad Mahadev Mate (2 September 1886–25 December 1957) was a Marathi writer and a social reformer from Bombay State, India. Mate was a teacher of English and Marathi literature by profession. Although he took up writing at the relatively late age of forty-four, during the remainder of his life he wrote eclectically and copiously on a variety of social, scientific, biographical and historical subjects. He was deeply troubled by the social scourge of untouchability in contemporary India, and wrote several short stories as well as essays arguing for the abolition of this practice. Although he was a Brahmin by birth and retained a spiritual affinity for the cultural and religious tenets of Hinduism, his writings show his sustained scepticism towards many of its dogmas. Mate was born in the town of Shirpur in Vidarbha. He went to New English School, Satara and acquired his university education (up to an M.A.) in Pune. For a few years, he served as a teacher at the Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya, Pune and later as a professor at Sir Parshurambhau College. His son Madhukar Mate (born 1930) was an eminent archaeologist with expertise in medieval India.  Mate presided over the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Sangli in 1943.","slug":"shripad-mahadev-mate","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Unknown","url":"/sootradhar/shripad-mahadev-mate","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:19:00.338735","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14447,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Ratnakar Ramkrushna Matkari","bio":"\nRatnakar Ramkrushna Matkari  (17 November 1938 – 17 May 2020) was a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer/director, and a self-taught artist from Maharashtra, India.\nMatkari was born on 17 November 1938 in Mumbai. After earning a degree in economics from Mumbai University in 1958, he worked at the Bank of India for the next twenty years. Since 1978, he devoted his time exclusively to writing & production/direction of movies and plays. He was married to artist Pratibha Matkari. He died on 17 May 2020 in Mumbai, having tested positive for COVID-19 the week before during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.","raw_bio":"Ratnakar Ramkrushna Matkari  (17 November 1938 – 17 May 2020) was a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer/director, and a self-taught artist from Maharashtra, India. Matkari was born on 17 November 1938 in Mumbai. After earning a degree in economics from Mumbai University in 1958, he worked at the Bank of India for the next twenty years. Since 1978, he devoted his time exclusively to writing & production/direction of movies and plays. He was married to artist Pratibha Matkari. He died on 17 May 2020 in Mumbai, having tested positive for COVID-19 the week before during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.","slug":"ratnakar-ramkrushna-matkari","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Mumbai, India","url":"/sootradhar/ratnakar-ramkrushna-matkari","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:19:00.362234","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14448,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Keshav Tanaji Meshram","bio":"\nKeshav Tanaji Meshram (24 November 1937 – 3 December 2007) was a Marathi poet, critic, novelist, and short-story writer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote about 40 books.\nMeshram was born in a poor dalit family in Akola on 24 November 1937. He spent his teens and early adulthood working as a railway wagon loader, a construction worker, and an oil mill worker. While struggling to make a living, he continued his education. After graduation from college, he joined Western Railways as a clerk, but later secured the position of a Marathi lecturer at Maharshi Dayanand College in Parel area of Mumbai.","raw_bio":"Keshav Tanaji Meshram (24 November 1937 – 3 December 2007) was a Marathi poet, critic, novelist, and short-story writer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote about 40 books. Meshram was born in a poor dalit family in Akola on 24 November 1937. He spent his teens and early adulthood working as a railway wagon loader, a construction worker, and an oil mill worker. While struggling to make a living, he continued his education. After graduation from college, he joined Western Railways as a clerk, but later secured the position of a Marathi lecturer at Maharshi Dayanand College in Parel area of Mumbai.","slug":"keshav-tanaji-meshram","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Unknown","url":"/sootradhar/keshav-tanaji-meshram","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:19:00.374362","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14449,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Dattaram Maruti Mirasdar","bio":"\nDattaram Maruti Mirasdar (14 April 1927 – 2 October 2021), popularly known by his initials (\"D Ma\" and also as \"Dadasaheb\") was a Marathi writer and narrator principally of humorous stories.His stories were principally based on rural Maharashtra.The subtle and comic stories he wrote were well read.\nMirasdar was born on 14 April 1927 in Akluj and went to school in Pandharpur. He earned M.A. from the Sir Parashurambhau College  in Pune and became a teacher in 1952. He became a professor of Marathi in a college in Pune in 1961.","raw_bio":"Dattaram Maruti Mirasdar (14 April 1927 – 2 October 2021), popularly known by his initials (\"D Ma\" and also as \"Dadasaheb\") was a Marathi writer and narrator principally of humorous stories.His stories were principally based on rural Maharashtra.The subtle and comic stories he wrote were well read. Mirasdar was born on 14 April 1927 in Akluj and went to school in Pandharpur. He earned M.A. from the Sir Parashurambhau College  in Pune and became a teacher in 1952. He became a professor of Marathi in a college in Pune in 1961.","slug":"dattaram-maruti-mirasdar","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Pune, Maharashtra, India","url":"/sootradhar/dattaram-maruti-mirasdar","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:19:00.386126","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14450,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi","bio":"\nVasudev Vishnu Mirashi (1893–1985) was a Sanskrit scholar and a prominent Indologist of the 20th century who hailed from Maharashtra, India. He was an expert of his times on stone and copper inscriptions and the coinage of ancient India. For his contributions to Indian history he was honoured with the title Mahamahopadhyaya by the British Indian Government in 1941. He was also awarded Padma Bhushan in 1975 by the President of India.\nDr. Mirashi was born in a middle-class family on 13 March 1893 at Kuwale village in Ratnagiri district. After completing his primary and secondary school education at Kolhapur (primarily Rajaram High School) he moved to Pune.  He stood first in order of merit in all school examinations and was awarded a State Scholarship, the Alfred Half-Freeship, The Ghatge Scholarship, and the Sir George Le Grand Jacob Scholarship. He obtained his bachelor's degree (BA) in 1914 and did his Master's (MA) in 1917 in the subject of Sanskrit at Deccan College. He received the Varjeevandas Madhavadas Sanskrit Scholarship for his BA studies, and while he wanted to study mathematics the rules of the scholarship required him to take Sanskrit; this proved to be a turning point in his career. He received the Dakshina Scholarship for his MA studies and stood first in the Language Group. As a result he won the Bhagwandas Purushottamdas Sanskrit Scholarship, the Jhala Vedanta Prize, and the Lawrence Jenkins Scholarship, the last one for studying for his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree, Subsequently he earned his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Bombay. His dissertation on Relation between the Dharmasutras and the Metrical Smrutis and the Evolution of Hindu Law won the Vishwanath Mandalik Gold Medal and Prize of the University of Bombay.","raw_bio":"Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi (1893–1985) was a Sanskrit scholar and a prominent Indologist of the 20th century who hailed from Maharashtra, India. He was an expert of his times on stone and copper inscriptions and the coinage of ancient India. For his contributions to Indian history he was honoured with the title Mahamahopadhyaya by the British Indian Government in 1941. He was also awarded Padma Bhushan in 1975 by the President of India. Dr. Mirashi was born in a middle-class family on 13 March 1893 at Kuwale village in Ratnagiri district. After completing his primary and secondary school education at Kolhapur (primarily Rajaram High School) he moved to Pune.  He stood first in order of merit in all school examinations and was awarded a State Scholarship, the Alfred Half-Freeship, The Ghatge Scholarship, and the Sir George Le Grand Jacob Scholarship. He obtained his bachelor's degree (BA) in 1914 and did his Master's (MA) in 1917 in the subject of Sanskrit at Deccan College. He received the Varjeevandas Madhavadas Sanskrit Scholarship for his BA studies, and while he wanted to study mathematics the rules of the scholarship required him to take Sanskrit; this proved to be a turning point in his career. He received the Dakshina Scholarship for his MA studies and stood first in the Language Group. As a result he won the Bhagwandas Purushottamdas Sanskrit Scholarship, the Jhala Vedanta Prize, and the Lawrence Jenkins Scholarship, the last one for studying for his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree, Subsequently he earned his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Bombay. His dissertation on Relation between the Dharmasutras and the Metrical Smrutis and the Evolution of Hindu Law won the Vishwanath Mandalik Gold Medal and Prize of the University of Bombay.","slug":"vasudev-vishnu-mirashi","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Unknown","url":"/sootradhar/vasudev-vishnu-mirashi","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:19:00.406804","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17},{"id":14451,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kavishala_logo.png","name":"Muktabai","bio":"\nMuktabai or Mukta was a saint in the Varkari Movement. She was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family and was the younger sister of Dnyaneshwar, the first Varkari saint. She wrote forty-one abhangs throughout her life.\nMuktabai's father's name was Vitthalpant Kulkarni, and her mother was Rukminibai Kulkarni. She had 3 elder brothers named Sopan, Nyaneshvar (also known as Dhyaneshvar), Nivrutti. Folk stories says that these children are studied Vedas. Nivruttinath, Jnandev, and Sopandev","raw_bio":"Muktabai or Mukta was a saint in the Varkari Movement. She was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family and was the younger sister of Dnyaneshwar, the first Varkari saint. She wrote forty-one abhangs throughout her life. Muktabai's father's name was Vitthalpant Kulkarni, and her mother was Rukminibai Kulkarni. She had 3 elder brothers named Sopan, Nyaneshvar (also known as Dhyaneshvar), Nivrutti. Folk stories says that these children are studied Vedas. Nivruttinath, Jnandev, and Sopandev","slug":"muktabai","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"Muktainagar[citation needed]","url":"/sootradhar/muktabai","tags":null,"created":"2023-09-22T12:19:00.422043","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":17}],"description":"<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 24px;\"> The Great Poets and Writers in Indian and World History! </p>","image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_description/black.jpg"}