Saroj Pathak (1 June 1929 – 16 April 1989) was
Gujarati
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* something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India
* Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat
* Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
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novelist, story writer and essayist from
Gujarat
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, India.
Life
Saroj Pathak was born on 1 June 1929 to Narandas Uddeshi in
Jakhau
Jakhau (''Ja-kha-oo'', pronounced as Ja-kho by locals) is a village in Gujarat, western India. Administratively, it is under Abdasa Taluka, Kutch District, of Gujarat. Jakhau is 17 km by road west-southwest of Naliya, the taluka headquart ...
in
Cutch State
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(now
Kutch district, Gujarat). She completed her primary and secondary school from
Bombay
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(now Mumbai). She
matriculated
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Australia
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in 1947. She completed BA in Gujarati in 1960 and MA in 1964 from
Gujarat University
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. She was associated with
Akashvani in 1956–57. She was also associated with Soviet Information Service in 1957–58. She was professor at college in
Bardoli
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Geography
Bardoli is located at . It has an average elevation of 22 metres (72 feet).
Weather
Bardoli is having average rainfall of 148 ...
from 1964. She died in Bardoli on 16 April 1989.
Works
Her husband was a humourist and used to write stories which inspired her to write. Her first story, ''Nahi Andharu, Nahi Ajvalu'' was published in ''Jivanmadhuri'' magazine. Her ''Sarika Pinjarstha'' was praised. Her first short story collection ''Prem Ghata Zuk Aai'' (1959) was published by Chetan Publishers which earned her prize from Government of
Bombay State
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. ''Preet Bandhani'' (1961) was published with help of her husband. ''Maro Asbab, Maro Rag'' (1966) contains social stories. ''Virat Tapaku'' (1966) brought her recognition as modernist writer. ''Hukamno Ekko'', ''Tathastu'' (1972) are her other story collections.
Personal life
She married Ramanlal Pathak, Gujarati humourist in 1950.
References
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Women writers from Gujarat
20th-century Indian novelists
1989 deaths
20th-century Indian short story writers
20th-century Indian women writers
1938 births
Gujarat University alumni
Indian feminist writers
People from Kutch district
Novelists from Gujarat