The letters Shatapatre published in newspaper Prabhakar to create social awareness were writen by whom?
OPTIONS:-
-Bhau Mahajan,Balshastri Jambhekar,Lokhitwadi,
Krishnarao Bhalekar.
Answers
Lokhitwadi is the correct answer.
Gopal Hari Deshmukh (Lokhitwadi) was a great thinker, writer and social reformer of Maharashtra during the British rule in India. He wrote a series of laters under the pen name Lokhitwadi in a weekly newspaper Prabharkar. The letters came to be known as Shatapatre. In these letters he wrote about the social issues like child marriage, caste system, widow remarriage, dowry system and polygomy. He promoted women emancipation and education of women.
It was Lokhitwadi, who write the letters Shatpatre in the paper Prabhakar for creating social awareness.
The writer was a great social reformer during the British Raj in India and was a philosopher with an expansive vision.
His original name was Gopal Hari, but he wrote using a pen name in the weekly Prabhakar about many social subjects like child marriage, widow empowerment, female education, and many other subjects.