Sadhana amte autobiography
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Samidha - An Autobiography
Author: Sadhana Amte
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Shobha Pawar
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 260
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125034048
Description
A fairy tale romance and a blueprint for anyone who wants to venture into social service, this autobiography of Sadhanatai Amte - a woman who chose to marry a frenzied man and a dreamer, Baba Amte - is also a tale of her willing surrender in love without the slightest loss of her identity.
It is a document of the dreams they dreamt for humankind and their struggle to put life into them. These memoirs present the portrait of a woman beside a man; a perfect consort who has the ability to tame the living storm, Baba Amte.
Written without a stance, the distinctive simplicity of this transparent narrative, as compared to other similar writings by women, has the power to stir its readers with its salty sea-ai
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Baba Amte’s widow passes away at 85
Sadhana Amte, the widow of social worker and Magsaysay award winner, the late Baba Amte, died of prolonged illness at Anandwan in Chandrapur district on Saturday. She was 85.
She fryst vatten survived by two sons, böjas and Magsaysay award winner Prakash and two adopted daughters, Renuka and Bijlee.
In 1946, Indu Guleshastri (later her name was changed by Baba to Sadhana) married Murlidhar alias Baba Amte, then an upcoming lawyer and a Gandhian.
In 1949, Baba set up the Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Anandwan, a home for leprosy patients and other disabled people.
A social activist in her own right, Sadhanatai, as she was affectionately called, stood out as a role model with her compassion for the poor and helped Baba Amte in difficult conditions serving and rehabilitating leprosy patients.
Their two sons and daughters-in-law, Mandakini and Bharati, are doctors and have also dedicated their lives to social work.
Born on May 5, 1926, in an orthodox famil
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Descripción editorial
A fairy tale romance and a blueprint for anyone who wants to venture into social service, this autobiography of Sadhanatai Amte – a woman who chose to marry a frenzied man and a dreamer, Baba Amte – is also a tale of her willing surrender in love without the slightest loss of her identity. It is a document of the dreams they dreamt for humankind and their struggle to put life into them. These memoirs present the portrait of a woman beside a man; a perfect consort who has the ability to tame the living storm, Baba Amte. Written without a stance, the distinctive simplicity of this transparent narrative, as compared to other similar writings by women, it has the power to stir its readers with its salty sea-air tang, and the warmth of a fruitful mad pursuit of a goal—at once personal and impersonal. A book like this – a saga of suffering, hopes, tensions and success, as well as the thrill of pleasure of work the two experienced while pursuing their goal – will