Aruna Ramchandra Dhere

Aruna Ramchandra Dhere (Devanagari: अरुणा रामचंद्र ढेरे) (b. 1957) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.^[1]

She has a Ph.D. from Pune University in Marathi literature. She was a lecturer and producer in the Educational Media Research Center at Pune University during 1983-1988, and then had a short stint in the Maharashtra State Education Institution.

She is the daughter of Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere.

Literary work

Starting around 1990, Dhere took up a full-time career as a writer. Her literary works include personal essays, short stories, novels, poems, travelogues, children’s stories, and books on sant literature, folk literature, and social history.

She has written on the lives especially of women from earlier times who rebelled against old traditions.

Some of her poems have been translated into other languages, including English.

She has written a few television screenplays and dialogues.

Dhere has edited over a dozen publications and magazines.

She has won about thirty awards from government bodies and literary associations for her literary work.

Other activities

Dhere has been on the senate of Pune University and the Advisory Committee of Akashvani.

She was a member of three Maharashtra state government bodies related to cultural and literary activities: Lokasahitya Samiti, Sahitya Sanskruti Mandal, and Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha. In February 1999, along with poet Namdev Dhondo Mahanor and writer Ram Balkrishna Shewalkar, she resigned from all literary organizations connected with the state government to protest against the tirade by Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, who had publicly said earlier that “littérateurs have contributed nothing to society.” She said that it would be difficult for her to continue functioning on those committees as “the government did not consider it to be its duty to protect literature and culture.”^[2]

Books

The following is a partial list of Dhere's books:

• प्रारंभ (Prarambh)
• मैत्रेयी (Maitreyi)
• नाग मंडल (Nag Mandal)
• लावण्या यात्रा (Lawanya Yatra)
• भगव्या वाटा (Bhagawya Wata)
• कृष्ण किनारा (Krushna Kinara)
• जावे जन्माकडे (Jawe Janmakade)
• आठवणींचा जाळ (Aathavanincha Jal)
• काळोख आणि पाणी (Kalokh Ani Pani)
• लोक आणि अभिजात (Lok Ani Abhijata)
• विवेक आणि विद्रोह (Wiwek Ani Widroha)
• आठवणीतले अंगण (Athawanitale Angan)
• लोकसंस्कृतीची रूपे (Loksanskrutichi Rupe)
• वेगळी माती, वेगळा वास (Wegali Mati Wegala Was)
• नव्या जुन्या कथांवरती (Nawya Junya Kathanwarati)
• लोकसंस्कृतीचे प्रतिभादर्शन (Loksanskrutiche Pratibhadarshan) (सहसंपादिका: वर्षा गजेंद्रगडकर)
• सार्वजनिक सत्यधर्माचे उपासक डॉ. विश्राम रामजी घोले आणि त्यांचा परिवार (Sarwajanik Satyadharmache Upasak Doctor Wishram Ramaji Ghole Ani Tyancha Pariwar)
• Mantrakshar (All Poetry)

References

1. ^ "Aruna Dhere". womensworldindia.org. http://www.womensworldindia.org/Author.aspx?id=51. Retrieved 2009-08-11. 
2. ^ "Another poet quits govt body". EXPRESS India. 1999-02-15. http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19990215/ige15069.html. Retrieved 2009-08-11. 

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