Ravindra Kelekar

Ravindra Kelekar (7 March 1925 – 27 August 2010)

was an Indian author who wrote primarily in the Ravindra Kelekar
Konkani language, though he also wrote in Marathi
and Hindi.[4] A Gandhian activist, freedom fighter and
a pioneer in the modern Konkani movement, he was a
well known Konkani scholar, linguist, and creative
thinker. Kelekar was a participant in the Indian
freedom movement, Goa's liberation movement, and
later the campaign against the merger of the newly
formed Goa with Maharashtra. He played a key role in
the founding of the Konkani Bhasha Mandal, which
lead the literary campaign for the recognition of
Konkani as a full-fledged language, and its
reinstatement as the state language of Goa.[5] He
authored nearly 100 books in the Konkani language,
including Amchi Bhas Konkaneech, Shalent Konkani
Kityak, Bahu-bhashik Bharatant Bhashenche
Samajshastra and Himalayant, and also edited Jaag Portrait of Kelekar
magazine for more than two decades.
Born 7 March 1925[1]
Kelekar died at Apollo Hospital at Margao, Goa at Cuncolim, Goa, Portuguese
India
around 11.30 am on Friday, 27 August 2010. He was
85.[4][6] His remains were cremated with State honours Died 27 August 2010 (aged 85)
Margao, Goa, India
at his native village of Priol.[2]
Resting Priol, Goa, India[2]
Kelekar received the Padma Bhushan (2008),[7][8] the place
Gomant Sharada Award of Kala Academy,[8] the Occupation freedom fighter, linguistic
Sahitya Akademi Award (1977),[9] and the Sahitya activist, poet, author
Akademi Fellowship (2007)—the highest award of the Language Konkani
Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Nationality Portuguese
Letters.[10] He also received the 2006 Jnanpith (until 1961)
Award,[11] the first ever awarded to an author writing Indian (from 1961)
in the Konkani language,[1] which was presented in
Spouse Godubai Kelekar
July 2010.[12]
Children 1
Relatives Madhavi Sardesai (niece)
Early life and education Vijai Sardesai (nephew)[3]

Kelekar was born on 7 March 1925, in the city of

Cuncolim in South Goa.[1] He was named Chandrakant after his mother Chandra.still,it was later changed
to Ravindra by his maternal grandfather lingubab Dalvi. His father, Dr Rajaram Kelekar, was a physician
who later became renowned for his Portuguese translation of the Bhagwad Gita.[8] Most of his childhood
was spent in Diu. Afterwards he returned to Goa for his further studies .While still a student at the
Lyceum High School in Panaji, Kelekar joined the Goa liberation movement in 1946,which brought him
in close contact with several local and national leaders, including Ram Manohar Lohia, under whose
influence he was able to recognise the power of language to mobilise the local populace. Later, he saw
the potential in his native Konkani language, which became his lifelong work.[8]

Career
Already deeply influenced by Gandhian philosophy, in 1949 Kelekar left his native Goa for Wardha, to be
with noted Gandhian and writer Kakasaheb Kalelkar. Kelekar stayed under Kalelkar's tutelage until 1955,
when he was appointed librarian of the Gandhi Memorial Museum in New Delhi. This turned out to be
short-lived, as only a year later he plunged back into the Goa freedom movement. With a mission to
reconnect the Goan diaspora all over the world, he started the weekly, Gomant Bharati (1956–60),[13]
published in the Latin script in Bombay. Soon after, being an active participant in Goa's struggle for
freedom, he was imprisoned by the Portuguese. He was released when the Indian Army invaded and
annexed Goa in 1961.

He joined the socio-political campaign against the merger of Goa into the neighbouring Maharashtra
state, which ended after the plebiscite of 1967 (the Goa Opinion Poll), with Goa retaining its separate
identity as a union territory. Goa retained this status until 1987, when it was declared a state.

After Goa's independence, Kelekar took to literary activism, getting his native tongue, Konkani,
recognized as a distinct language (rather than a dialect of Marathi). He was compared favourably with
pioneers in the Konkani literary movement, such as Shenoi Goembab.[14] During this period, he wrote
some of his most important works promoting the Konkani language, including Aamchi Bhas Konkanich
(1962), a dialogue revealing the importance of Konkani to the common man on the street; Shallent
Konkani Kityaak (1962), highlighting the significance of having Konkani medium schools in Goa; and A
Bibliography of Konkani Literature in Devanagari, Roman and Kannada characters (1963).[5][15] In
February 1987, the Goa Legislative Assembly had passed the Official Language Bill making Konkani the
Official Language of Goa.[16] The struggle ended in 1992, when Konkani was included in the Eighth
Schedule of the Indian Constitution as an official language.[17] With life's mission completed, Kelkar
retired from public life, focusing mainly of his writing.[8]

On 26 February 1975, the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, recognised Konkani as
an independent language. The first Sahitya Akademi Award for a work in Konkani was won by Kelekar
for his travelogue, Himalayant, in 1977.[18][19][20] The Akademi's first Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize
in Konkani also went to Kelekar in 1990 for Ami Taankan Manshant Haadle, a Konkani translation of a
collection of essays in Gujarati, Mansaeena Diva, by Jhaverchand Meghani.[21] He received the 2006
Jnanpith Award, which was the first given to a Konkani-language writer.[11] The pinnacle of his career
came with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2007.[10] A lifelong proponent of
regional languages, in his acceptance speech for the Jnanpith award, he said, "People have stopped
reading books in regional languages. On the other hand, through English, we have created Bonsai
intellectuals, Bonsai writers and Bonsai readers."[22]
When the Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Academy, an offshoot of the Konkani Language and Cultural
Foundation, was set up in 2006, the first work it took up for translation was Velavaylo Dhulo, a collection
of Kelekar's essays.[23] His books have been translated into Hindi and other North Indian languages, and
are used by universities.[24]

Personal life
Kelekar married Godubai Sardesai in 1949; their son Girish was born in April 1950.[5] Kelekar lived in
his ancestral home—built by his father in 1937—called "Kelekar House", in the village of Priol in central
Goa. The Casa Dos Kelekars, as it is formally known, is now seen as exemplary of a typical Goan
community home.[25]

Bibliography

Konkani
Kelekar, Ravindra (1976). Himalayant [In the Himalayas] (in Konkani).
Navi Shala
Satyagrah
Mangal Prabhat
Mahatma
Ashe Ashille Gandhiji
Katha ani Kanyo
Tulshi
Velevoilio Ghulo
Bhaja Govindam
Uzvadeche Sur
Bhashechem Samaj Shashtra
Mukti
Teen eke Teen
Lala Bala
Brahmandantlem Tandav
Panthastha
Samidha
Vothambe
Sarjakachi Antar Katha

Konkani translations
Mahabharata (two volumes)
Ravindra Kelekar (7 March 1925 – 27 August 2010) was a noted Indian author who wrote primarily in
the Konkani language, though he also wrote in Marathi and Hindi.[3] A Gandhian activist, freedom
fighter and a pioneer in the modern Konkani movement, he is a well known Konkani scholar, linguist,
and creative thinker. Kelkar was a participant in the Indian freedom movement, Goa's liberation
movement, and later the campaign against the merger of the newly formed Goa with Maharashtra. He
played a key role in the founding of the Konkani Bhasha Mandal, which lead the literary campaign for
the recognition of Konkani as a full-fledged language, and its reinstatement as the state language of Goa.
[4] He authored nearly 100 books in the Konkani language, including Amchi Bhas Konkaneech, Shalent
Konkani Kityak, Bahu-bhashik Bharatant Bhashenche Samajshastra and Himalayant, and also edited Jaag
magazine for more than two decades.

Kelekar died at Apollo Hospital at Margao, Goa at around 11.30 am on Friday 27 August. He was 85.[3]
[5] His remains were cremated with State honours at his native village of Priol.[2]

Kelekar received the Padma Bhushan (2008),[6][7] the Gomant Sharada Award of Kala Academy,[7] the
Sahitya Akademi Award (1976),[8] and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship (2007)—the highest award of
the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.[9] He also received the 2006 Jnanpith Award,
[10] the first ever awarded to an author writing in the Konkani language,[1] which was presented in July
2010.[11]

Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Bibliography 4.1 Konkani 4.2 Konkani
translations 4.3 Marathi 5 References 6 External links Early life and education Kelekar was born on 7
March 1925, in the city of Cuncolim in South Goa.[1] His father, Dr Rajaram Kelekar, was a physician
who later became renowned for his Portuguese translation of the Bhagwad Gita.[7] While still a student
at the Lyceum High School in Panaji, Kelekar joined the Goa liberation movement in 1946. This brought
him in close contact with several local and national leaders, including Ram Manohar Lohia, under whose
influence he was able to recognise the power of language to mobilise the local populace. Later, he saw
the potential in his native Konkani language, which became his lifelong work.[7]

Career Already deeply influenced by Gandhian philosophy, in 1949 Kelekar left his native Goa for
Wardha, to be with noted Gandhian and writer Kakasaheb Kalelkar. Kelekar stayed under Kalelkar's
tutelage until 1955, when he was appointed librarian of the Gandhi Memorial Museum in New Delhi.
This turned out to be short-lived, as only a year later he plunged back into the Goa freedom movement.
With a mission to reconnect the Goan diaspora all over the world, he started the weekly, Gomant Bharati
(1956–60),[12] published in the Latin script in Bombay. Soon after, being an active participant in Goa's
struggle for freedom, he was imprisoned by the Portuguese. He was released when the Indian Army
invaded and annexed Goa in 1961.

He joined the socio-political campaign against the merger of Goa into the neighbouring Maharashtra
state, which ended after the plebiscite of 1967, with Goa retaining its separate identity albeit as a union
territory. Goa retained this status until 1987, when it was declared a separate state.

After Goa's independence, Kelekar took to literary activism, in the form of getting his native Konkani
language its due status as an independent language, rather than as just a dialect of Marathi. He was
compared favourably with pioneers in the Konkani literary movement, such as Shenoi Goembab.[13]
During this period, he wrote some of his most important works promoting the Konkani language,
including Aamchi Bhas Konkanich (1962), a dialogue revealing the importance of Konkani to the
common man on the street; Shallent Konkani Kityaak (1962), highlighting the significance of having
Konkani medium schools in Goa; and A Bibliography of Konkani Literature in Devanagari, Roman and
Kannada characters (1963).[4][14] In February 1987, the Goa Legislative Assembly had passed the
Official Language Bill making Konkani the Official Language of Goa.[15] The struggle ended in 1992,
when Konkani was included in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution as an official language.[16]
With life's mission completed, Kelkar retired from public life, focusing mainly of his writing.[7]

On 26 February 1975, the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, recognised Konkani as
an independent language. The first Sahitya Akademi Award for a work in Konkani was won by Kelekar
for his travelogue, Himalayant, in 1977.[17][18][19] The Akademi's first Translation Award in Konkani
also went to Kelekar in 1990 for Ami Taankan Manshant Haadle, a Konkani translation of a collection of
essays in Gujarati, Mansaeena Diva, by Jhaverchand Meghani.[20] He received the 2006 Jnanpith Award,
which was the first given to a Konkani-language writer.[10] The pinnacle of his career came with the
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2007.[9] A lifelong proponent of regional
languages, in his acceptance speech for the Jnanpith award, he said, "People have stopped reading books
in regional languages. On the other hand, through English, we have created Bonsai intellectuals, Bonsai
writers and Bonsai readers."[21]

When the Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Academy, an offshoot of the Konkani Language and Cultural
Foundation, was set up in 2006, the first work it took up for translation was Velavaylo Dhulo, a collection
of Kelekar's essays.[22] His books have been translated into Hindi and other North Indian languages, and
are used by universities.[23]

Marathi
Japan Jasa Disla
Gnyannidhicha Sahavasat

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