Balwantray Thakore
Balwantrai Thakore , as popularly he is known, was a Poemteacher or KavitaShikshak in Gujarati literature. He, known as Ballukaka, in his intimate circle, was one of the great pioneers of Pandit yug. He played a great role in giving a new direction to modern Gujarati poetry and the first six decades of Gujarati poetry of this century were marked with his assertive personality.
Thakore was born to a lawyer onOctober 1869 in Porbandar, and later moved to Bharuch in Gujarat. After his schooling in Bharuch, he went to Rajkot for further education where he became acquainted with Navalram Pandya, a contemporary of Narmad Mahatma Gandhi and Manishankar Bhatt kant. While studying at Rajkot, he came under the influence of Christianity. In his mature age he appreciated certain principles of Islam as well. This exposure gave him a rational and impartial outlook, also reflected in his poems. He got married with Chandramani at the age of eighteen years, later he remarried after the death of his first wife.
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