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Vibhavari Shirurkar

DOB : 18-03-1905
Date of death: 07-05-2001
Lived For : 96 Years
Language : Marathi
Star Sign : Pisces
Gender : Female

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Malati Vishram Bedekar Vishram Bedekar is a Marathi-language writer and f >> Read More... , also known as Vibhavari Shirurkar was the first feminist writer in Marathi Literature. She was born on 18th March 1905. She was married to Vishram Bedekar, with whom she had a child named Shrikant Bedekar. Earlier, she was known as Balutai Khare. During her teenage years Balutai was sent to live in the hostel of the school for girls started by Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve a few years prior in Hingane which was still on the outskirts of Pun” at the time. After that she quit that school; and later on she graduated from the women’s college in the age of below 20 only.

After getting college education, Balutai joined the teaching staff of Kanya Shala situated in Pune, which was a girls’ school being run in collaboration with Karve. In 1936 she left that high school as its headmistress to join central government service as an officer appointed to head a ‘settlement’ of some of the tribes that the colonial British power in India considered as ‘criminal’ tribes. After her education she got married to Vishram Bedekar in the same year 1938 and used the name Malati Vishram Bedekar. She resigned from the government service in 1940 in order to devote herself to writing and voluntary social work and in political activities for the socialist party. She presided over a “parallel” Sahitya Sammelan which was organised around 1980 against the excessive interventionism of the government in the main Marathi Sahitya Sammelan.

The author Bedekar who contributed the novels in marathi wrote Kalyanche Nishwas which is a short story collection and Hindolyawar which is a novel both in 1933 and these works were published under the pseudonym ‘Vibhavari Shirurkar’. Bali (The Victim), an effective novel written by Bedekar in 1950, was set by her observation for three years of the extremely hard living conditions of the so-called ‘criminal’ tribes encaged behind the barbed wires by the British government in the ‘settlement’ area of pre-independent India. (By the time Bali got published, the Government of independent India had done away with the very concept of the ‘settlement’ area, behind barbed wires for ‘criminal’ tribes in the year 1950. While Wiralele Swapna was a collection of the pages of imaginary diary written by two lovers, her Shabari was the portrayal of a married woman’s life in a domesticated prison. She died on 7th January 2001.