i was about sixteen and on a holiday in jorve my maternal grandpas place.my usual timepass in those pretty golden days was reading. one day in morning as i was peeping in some pages dada dropped in his living room and asked what was i reading. than he suddenly stood on small stool & extended his hand in his copboard full of books. he picked one book dusted it of and handed to me and said 'read this its my favorite'...it was go ni dandekar's smarangatha , a autobioraphy. i read it like a hungry wolf found it one of the best memoirs till today.
dada was a vorocious reader. one of his favorite book was biography of george washington carver's marathi biography written by veena gavankar named ek hota carver. dada distrubuted this book among schools & institutions. he used to persuate his partyworkers & youngters to read it. his speeches were always filled with incidances on life of george washington carver.his other favorite were pra ka atre's karheche pani, yeshwantrao chavans krishnakath & henry kissinger,s dairies.
further dada wrote his own memoirs in autobigraphical way in two volumes named amrutmanthan & amrutgatha which became a instant hit and got applauded in literaute circle. another memorable incident happened in 2005 . i accidentally encountered a marathi version of french classic the man who planted trees by jean giono. one day my aunt by chance picked up a copy from my desk and carried to sangamner where see dropped on dada's desk absentmindedly....and that night
dada read the short book and could not sleep. he got up in morning and called out a early morning meeting with all his senior partyworkers...this whole episode gave birth to a green movement called dandakaranya abhiyan..rest is history!
however reading autobigraphy's have been passion of my life....in may 2010 i got hold of the autobiography of malcolm x....i swear i tell you what ...its almost like a bible...it almost a emotional roller coaster..it swirls,moves,dives deep in water,swings in sky........you wont believe this book has vibes!
i havent finished yet has reading it needs a mental space which i hardly get....but i assure you its a life time treat! some of favorite memoirs alias autobiography's are swami rama's living with himalayan masters, obama's dreaams from my father, mauhammed asad,s the road to mecca, dalai lama's freedom in exile, jon krakauer's into the wild are only some of the few...otherwise many more!
dada was a vorocious reader. one of his favorite book was biography of george washington carver's marathi biography written by veena gavankar named ek hota carver. dada distrubuted this book among schools & institutions. he used to persuate his partyworkers & youngters to read it. his speeches were always filled with incidances on life of george washington carver.his other favorite were pra ka atre's karheche pani, yeshwantrao chavans krishnakath & henry kissinger,s dairies.
further dada wrote his own memoirs in autobigraphical way in two volumes named amrutmanthan & amrutgatha which became a instant hit and got applauded in literaute circle. another memorable incident happened in 2005 . i accidentally encountered a marathi version of french classic the man who planted trees by jean giono. one day my aunt by chance picked up a copy from my desk and carried to sangamner where see dropped on dada's desk absentmindedly....and that night
dada read the short book and could not sleep. he got up in morning and called out a early morning meeting with all his senior partyworkers...this whole episode gave birth to a green movement called dandakaranya abhiyan..rest is history!
however reading autobigraphy's have been passion of my life....in may 2010 i got hold of the autobiography of malcolm x....i swear i tell you what ...its almost like a bible...it almost a emotional roller coaster..it swirls,moves,dives deep in water,swings in sky........you wont believe this book has vibes!
i havent finished yet has reading it needs a mental space which i hardly get....but i assure you its a life time treat! some of favorite memoirs alias autobiography's are swami rama's living with himalayan masters, obama's dreaams from my father, mauhammed asad,s the road to mecca, dalai lama's freedom in exile, jon krakauer's into the wild are only some of the few...otherwise many more!
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