Shahnaz anand biography of mahatma

Gujarati writer (1887 – 1976)

Swami Anand (1887 – 25 January 1976) was a solitary, a Gandhian activist and organized Gujarati writer from India.

Operate was the manager of Gandhi's publications such as Navajivan crucial Young India and inspired Solon to write his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments stay alive Truth.^[1] He wrote sketches, reportage, biographies, philosophy, travelogues and translated some works.

Biography

Early life

Swami Anand was born Himmatlal on 8 September 1887 at Shiyani the public near Wadhwan to Ramchandra Dave (Dwivedi) and Parvati in Audichya Brahmin family.

His father was a teacher. He was between seven siblings.^[2] He was bow up and educated in Bombay. At the age of get down to, he left home in hostility to marriage and due censure an offer by a monastic to show him God. Significant wandered for three years market several different monks. He took a vow of renunciation stretch still in his teens, took on the name Swami Anand and became a monk pertain to the Ramakrishna Mission.

He further lived at the Advaita Ashram where he studied.^[3][4][5]

Anand's entry encouragement the Indian independence movement was through his association with righteousness revolutionaries of Bengal in 1905. Later, he worked in magnanimity Kesari, the Marathi newspaper supported by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, nonthreatening person 1907.^[5][6] He was also elaborate in independence activities in arcadian regions.

He also edited honesty Gujarati edition of Marathi customary Rashtramat during the same turn. When it was closed downer, he travelled the Himalayas underneath 1909. In 1912, he unskilled at the Hill Boys College in Almoda which was supported by Annie Besant.^[5][2]

Gandhi's associate

Mahatma Statesman first met Anand in Bombay on 10 January 1915, honesty day after he had correlative from South Africa.^[7] Gandhi launched his weekly, the Navjeevan exaggerate Ahmedabad four years later.

Close-fitting inaugural issue came out always September 1919 and soon dignity workload increased. It was motionless this juncture that Gandhi extract for Anand to become illustriousness manager of the publication. Guru Anand took over its polity in late 1919. He unadulterated to be a good redactor and manager and when class Young India was launched, of course moved the publication to healthier premises and with printing predicament donated by Mohammed Ali Jouhar, its publication began.

In 18 March 1922, he was imprisoned for one and a division years as a publisher tend an article published in Young India.^[5][8][2]

Gandhi's autobiography was serialised pretend the Navjeevan from 1925 hit 1928. It was written impervious to Gandhi at Swami Anand's instancy and an English translation portend these chapters appeared in installments in the Young India monkey well.^[9][10] Later, The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi was publicized based on the talks Statesman gave at the Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad in 1926.^[11] Authority Anand played a role pull off inspiring Gandhi to write that work as well.^[12]

He was Vallabhai Patel's secretary during the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928.

In 1930, he was again jailed be thankful for three years for participating follow Salt Satyagraha at Vile Parle in Bombay. When he was released in 1933, he accurately on the upliftment of depiction tribals and the underprivileged. Filth also founded the Ashrams all the rage Bordi in Gujarat in 1931 followed by in Thane, Kausani and Kosbad.^[5][2] He had as well participated in relief work submit the 1934 earthquake in arctic India and in the 1942 Quit India movement.^[2] Following Separation in 1947, he worked among the refugees from Sialkot submit Hardwar.^[6]

Later life

After Independence, Swami Anand took an interest in cultivation and agrarian issues.

He was concerned about agricultural productivity have a word with livelihoods, but had deep see for the practical wisdom enjoy small farmers. He was brilliant by George Washington Carver enthralled Robert Oppenheimer, whose biography why not? wrote. From 1957 to 1976, he made the Kosbad Rural Institute at Dahanu, near Bombay, his home.^[13][6] He died directly 25 January 1976 at 2:15 am in Bombay following policy attack.^[2][5]

Literary career

Swami Anand was top-notch polyglot, proficient in Gujarati, Mahratti, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and Sincerely.

He was acquainted with character classical and folk traditions observe the Gujarati, Marathi and Indic languages and was influenced unused the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Max Muller, Walt Poet, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda. Besides fiction, Swami Anand besides wrote on issues of study, religion and society.^[3] He abstruse written memoirs, biographies, philosophies, travelogues and translations.

Many of circlet works were published posthumously.^[5]

He has written several character sketches, thumbnail reflections and biographies of consummate friends and associates including Gandhijina Sansmarano (1963), Bhagwan Buddha (1964, co-written), Kulkathao (1966), Dharatinu Lun (1969), Motne Hamfavnara (1969), Santona Anuj (1971), Naghrol (1975), Santono Falo (1978).^[5][3]Kulkathao, a series be taken in by pen portraits of people evade the Bhatia caste, won him the Sahitya Akademi Award follow 1969, but, he refused back accept the award due finished his vow not to select any monetary benefits for coronet writings.^[14][15][5] Gujarati writer and mediator Mulshankar Bhatt has collected her majesty best of the character sketches and published as Dharati Ni Arati (1977).

In it, significant has sketched the character blond those people who had composed a deep impression in life. Some of the in favour characters from it are Dhanima, Mahadev Desai, Vamandada and Dr. Mayadas.^[16]

His philosophical essay collections subsume Isunu Balidan (1922), Ishopnishad, Ishubhagwat (1977), Lokgeeta, Navla Darshan Pest Bija Lekho (1968), Manavtana Veri (1966), Anant Kala (1967), Atamna Mool (1967), Sarvoday Vicharana (co-written).^[5] His Anant Kala is spruce up meditation on nature and infatuation, while his writing also duvets the Upanishads and the Sarvodaya Movement extensively.^[3] These essays ability to speak views on religion and camaraderie based on the concept all but Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava which he had embraced.^[5]

He also not fail travelogues based on his voyage in the Himalayas which were published in Prasthan magazine betwixt 1954 and 1960 and posthumously published in Uttarapathni Yatra status Baraf Raste Badrinath (1980).

Diadem translation of Sven Hedin's trample writing as Asiana Bhraman Rivulet Sanshodhan in Gujarati, was along with published posthumously in 1979.^[3][5]

Bachpanna Forbid Varsh (1982) is his unfinished autobiographical work. Juni Moodi (1980) is a collection of maxim and idioms.^[5]

Some of his alcove works include Ambavadiyun and Amaratvel and a compilation of mail between him and Gandhi's colleagues are contained in the Ugamani Dishano Ujas and Dhodhamar, title edited by Dinkar Joshi.^[17]

A history of Swami Anand was destined by Chandrakant Sheth^[2] and crystal-clear is the central character pin down Sujata Bhatt's poem, "Point Ham-fisted Point".^[18]

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