: अरुणा रामचंद्र ढेरे) (b. 1957) is a Marathi

Marathi people

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 writer from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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, India

India

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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

Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere

Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. Dhere was born in the town of Nigade in Pune district. He obtained a D.Lit...

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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

Sant

Sant is an Indian term derived from a Sanskrit verb that means both "to be good" and "to be real". From the fifteenth century the term has often referred to those who sing the name of God and worship Him, particularly the bhakti poets of Marathi...

 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

Ram Shewalkar

Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar was a Marathi orator, writer, and literary critic from Maharashtra, India.He was born on March 2, 1931 in Achalpur in Amravati district of Maharashtra.-Career:...

, she resigned from all literary organizations connected with the state government to protest against the tirade by Shiv Sena

Shiv Sena

Shiv Sena , is a political party in India founded on 19 June 1966 by Balasaheb Thackeray. It is currently headed by Thackeray's son, Uddhav Thackeray...

 chief Bal Thackeray

Bal Thackeray

Bal Keshav Thackeray , popularly known as Balasaheb Thackeray, is an Indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Hindu nationalist, and Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.Born in Pune, Thackeray began his professional career...

, 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.”

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)