AND I ENTER THIS WORLD

UDAY MORE
My aunt gave me the name, UDAY which actually means ‘(sun) rise’. This happened way back in 1963 on 25 February the day I was born. The hospital was one in Mumbai then Bombay. I was brought home to Reviera, First Floor, Flat #...

MAKING OF A MEGA STATE

 MAHARASHTRA
As one of the largest states in the nation, Maharashtra occupies a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau in the western peninsular part of the subcontinent. It’s shape roughly resembling a triangle. The western state...

Sujata Jadhav

SUJATA JADHAV
Sujata, my elder sister was born on 11 October 1959 is a product of St Annes High School Mumbai and Elphinstone College Mumbai. Married to Prataprao Sarjerao Jadhav a lawyer by profession and Dist Attorney Pune with she has tw...

Agitation Over Linguistic States

To know more of SAHEB’s qualities of strength and fortitude one has to go back to the years of the agitation over linguistic states. It was probably the most critical period of his life which was going to decide his political future. The sta...

Vasanti Shewale

VASANTI SHEWALE
My eldest sister
Expired.

Sushila More

SUSHILA MORE
Born on 15 December 1939 Sushila Pandurang Chavan my mother was from Vategao in then Satara and now Sangli district. She did her schooling at Boie Marathi Mulichi Shala Vategao in Valeve taluka at Satara and now Sangli district...

Babasaheb More

BABASAHEB MORE
My father BABASAHEB MORE born on 09 November 1932 to Raghunathrao and Laxmibai More.  Always in business (Tyres / Wines / Tourist Vehicles) and social work until he took up agriculture during his retired life. Haven trav...

Chandrika Jagtap

CHANDRIKA JAGTAP
Chandrika Jagtap the second daughter of Raghunathrao and Laxmibai More was my father’s other sister. She was married to Daulatrao alias Dadasaheb Jagtap was a Cabinet Minister – State of Maharashtra in Cabinet of Late V...

VENUTAI CHAVAN

VENUTAI CHAVAN

Venutai Chavan born on 02nd of February was my father’s eldest sister. She was the pillar of strength to all in the family as well as the extended family of her husband Shri Yeshwantrao Chavan whom she married at Phaltan...

Man Who Made History

A stalwart, strongman of and builder of modern Maharashtra he played a major role in the freedom struggle and in State and National Politics. Born on 12th March 1913 at Deorashtra in the now Sangli district of Maharashtra he lost his father in the pl...

Yeshwantrao B Chavan

YESHWANTRAO BALWANTRAO CHAVAN
 Some men in history seem to have been destined to take up responsibilities of high office in the face of overwhelming odds, when the chances of success seem all too bleak. In a span of sixty years SAHEB h...

SAHEB

To know more of SAHEB’s qualities of strength and fortitude one has to go back to the years of the agitation over linguistic states. It was probably the most critical period of his life which was going to decide his political future. The sta...

Lakshmibai More

LAKSHMIBAI MORE

My grandfather Raghunathrao More had two wives as his first wife died early. Ironically both went by the name Laxmibai. Little is known about them.

Raghunathrao More

RAGHUNATHRAO MORE

My grandfather Raghunathrao More was ADC to H.H Maharaja Sayajirao Gaikwad of Baroda cira 1850. He was gifted a huge area of land in the then State of Phaltan and he eventually moved there.

THE YOUNG POLITICIAN

The Young Politician

Saheb was born and brought up in Deorashtre a village in Satara district. Its a small village in hilly areas where agriculture is not a highly productive occupation. He spent his childhood in this tiny village and...