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His father, Dr Rajaram Kelekar, was a physician who later became renowned for his Portuguese translation of the Bhagwad Gita. Kelekar was born on 7 March 1925, in the city of Cuncolim in South Goa. He also received the 2006 Jnanpith Award, the first ever awarded to an author writing in the Konkani language, The Gomant Sharada Award of Kala Academy, Īnd the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship (2007)-the highest award of the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. Kelekar received the Padma Bhushan (2008), His remains were cremated with State honours at his native village of Priol. Kelekar died at Apollo Hospital at Margao, Goa at around 11.30 am on Friday 27 August. 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.
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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. 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. A Gandhian activist, freedom fighter and a pioneer in the modern Konkani movement, he is a well known Konkani scholar, linguist, and creative thinker. 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. Freedom fighter, linguistic activist, poet, author