Vaman Krushna Chorghade (

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: वामन कृष्ण चोरघडे; 16 July 1914 – 1 December 1995) was a

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writer from

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. He was born in Narkhed, Nagpur District and received a master's degree in Marathi and

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, along with a

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in education. His writings strongly reflected

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philosophy.

Life

As a follower of

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, Chorghade participated in India's movement for independence from the

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. He served for many years as an economics professor at a college in

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, before moving on to become the vice-principal of G. S. College of Commerce and Economics in

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. For some time, he chaired the Text Books Board of Maharashtra state government. In 1979, he presided over the 53rd

Marathi Sahitya Sammelan Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (All India Marathi Literary Conference) is an annual conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra State. The first Marathi Sahitya Sammelan was he ...

(an annual conference for Marathi-language writers) at Chandrapur.

Bibliography

The following is a partial list of collections of Chorghade's short stories: * सुषमा (1936) * पाथेय (1953) * प्रदीप (1954) * हवन * यौवन * प्रस्थान * देवाचे काम * ख्याल * चोरघडे यांची कथा (1960) * संपूर्ण चोरघडे (1966) जडणघडण (1981) is an autobiographical work of Chorghade pertaining to his literary career.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chorghade, Vaman Krushna Chorghade, Vaman Krushna 1914 births 1995 deaths People from Nagpur district Presidents of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan