Vaman Krushna Chorghade (Devanagari

Devanagari

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: वामन कृष्ण चोरघडे) (1914 - 1995) was a Marathi

Marathi people

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 writer from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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, India

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He was born on July 16, 1914 in Narkhed

Narkhed

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, Nagpur District

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. He received a master's degree in Marathi and Economics, and a B.T. Degree in education.

As a follower of Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...

, Chorghade participated in India's struggle for freedom from the British Raj

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He served for many years as an economics professor in a college in Wardha

Wardha

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 before moving on to be the vice-principal of G. S. College of Commerce and Economics in Nagpur

Nagpur

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For some time, he chaired the Text Books Board of Maharashtra state government.

His writings strongly reflected Gandhian philosophy.

He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

 at Chandrapur

Chandrapur

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in 1979.

The following is a partial list of collections of Chorghade's short stories:

• सुषमा (1936)
• पाथेय (1953)
• प्रदीप (1954)
• हवन
• यौवन
• प्रस्थान
• देवाचे काम
• ख्याल
• चोरघडे यांची कथा (1960)
• संपूर्ण चोरघडे (1966)

जडणघडण (1981) is an autobiographical work of Chorghade pertaining to his literary career.