Dhondo keshav karve biography of mahatma songs

Post a Comment. I have before me three books on Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve:. Chandavarkar published in by Popular Prakashan Bombay Mumbai.

Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve received the Padma Vibhushan in and the India’s highest honour the “Bharat Ratna” in , a fitting tribute on his centenary at the .

Allow me to tell you, Dear Reader, a bit about these books which describe the life and times of Maharshi Karve and tell us about the monumental pioneering work of one of the foremost social and educational reformers of India. It would be apt to start with his autobiography — Looking Back , and let Maharshi Karve describe his life and work from his own point of view in his simple yet fascinating style.

I am placing below a Book Review of his autobiography which I had reviewed a few years ago for your perusal:. Dear Reader, you must be wondering why I am reviewing an autobiography written in Well, sometime back, for six years of my life, I stayed in a magnificent building called Empress Court on Maharshi Karve Road in Mumbai. I share the same surname [ Karve ] as the author.

But, beyond that, compared to him I am a nobody — not even a pygmy. Maharshi Karve clearly knew his goal, persisted ceaselessly throughout his life with missionary zeal and transformed the destiny of the Indian Woman.

Dhondo Keshav Karve (18 April – 9 November ) (pronunciation), popularly known as Maharshi Karve, was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare.

The first university for women in India - The SNDT University and educational institutions for women covering the entire spectrum ranging from pre-primary schools to post-graduate, engineering, vocational and professional colleges bear eloquent testimony to his indomitable spirit, untiring perseverance and determined efforts. The author tells his life-story in a simple straightforward manner, with remarkable candour and humility; resulting in a narrative which is friendly, interesting and readable.

Autobiographies are sometimes voluminous tomes, but this a small book, pages, and a very easy comfortable enjoyable read that makes it almost unputdownable. Dhondo Keshav Karve was born on 18th of April He married at the age of fourteen but began his marital life at the age of twenty! This was the custom of those days.