Ram Ganesh Gadkari
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Ram Ganesh Gadkari | |
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| राम गणेश गडकरी | |
British India | |
| Died | 23 January 1919 (aged 34) |
| Nationality | British Indian |
| Other names | Govindagraj Balakram |
| Alma mater | Fergusson College (dropped out) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, playwright, humorist |
| Works | Ekach Pyala Prema Sanyas Bhava Bandhan |
| Spouse(s) | Sitabai Gadkari Rama Gadkari (divorced both) |
Ram Ganesh Gadkari (26 May 1885 – 23 January 1919) was a Marathi poet, playwright, and humorist from Bombay Presidency, India.
Ram Ganesh Gadkari was one of the writers the in new age transformation in Marathi literature. He wrote poetry under the pen name Govindagraj and humorous articles under the pen name Balakram. He wrote plays under his legal name.
Early life
Gadkari was born on 26 May 1885 in a Marathi Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu family in the town of Navsari of Gujarat. He died at Saoner near Nagpur on 23 January 1919.[1]
His father Ganesh Raghunath[Vasudeo] Gadkari died on 24 September 1893, and poverty hindered his timely formal education. He finished his high school education at age 19 and enrolled in Pune's Fergusson College. However, flunking in the mathematics examination, he abandoned his formal education at the end of the first year in college, and took up teaching to support himself while pursuing his keen literary interests.
Until nine years of his age, he was unable to speak Marathi. Afterwards, he read and studied
Personal
Ram Ganesh Gadkari was married twice. His first wife Sitabai had left him though according to some contemporaries it was he who had abandoned her. His second wife Rama was younger by some 17 years than him but this too proved to be not a very happy marriage. Gadkari was bitterly disappointed when he realized that marital bliss that he was seeking was not going to come his way.[citation needed]
Literary work
Within his short life span of 35 years, Gadkari produced four complete plays, three unfinished plays, 150 poems, and some humorous articles. (On the day of his death, he had finished writing just a few hours earlier his play Bhava Bandhan (भावबंधन).) Literary critics have judged all of his works to be of very high caliber.
Completed plays
- Ekach Pyala (एकच प्याला)
- Prema Sanyas (प्रेमसंन्यास)
- Punyaprabhav (पुण्यप्रभाव)
- Bhava Bandhan (भावबंधन)
Celebrated playwright,
There was some speculation that his play Ekach Pyala was based upon his personal and real experience with hard drinking, but Acharya Atre has convincingly demolished this speculation in his own autobiographical works and has stated that the one obsession that Gadkari had in his entire life was literature. Acharya Atre knew Gadkari fairly intimately, and therefore this assertion has a reasonable basis.[citation needed]
Unfinished plays
- Garva Nirvan (गर्वनिर्वाण)
- Vedyancha Bajar (वेड्यांचा बाजार)
- Raj Sanyas (राजसंन्यास)
Poetry
- Vagvaijayanti (वाग्वैजयंती) (collection of poems)
- Pimpalpan (पिंपळपान)
(collection of poems)
Humor
- Balakram (बाळकराम) (collection of humorous articles)
Gadkari Rangayatan (Gadkari Drama Theatre) and statue
With a view to preserve the rich cultural heritage of
References
- ^ Ganesh Prabhakar Pradhan (1992). Ram Ganesh Gadkari. Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. p. 2.
Ram Ganesh Gadkari was born in a lower middle class Kayastha Prabhu family at Navasari in Surat District of Gujarat, on 26th may , 1885
- ^ "Cong MLA Rane rewards vandals".
- ^ Mukherjee, Shoumojit (2017). "Sambhaji Brigade vandalises statue of litterateur R.G. Gadkari in Pune". The Hindu. No. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ^ Smruti Koppikar (7 January 2017). "Maratha pride (and votes): Why the statue of a legendary Marathi playwright was vandalised in Pune".
External links
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/pune-maratha-brigade-writer-statue-removed/1/848253.html
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