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Vishnu Bhatt Godshe Versaikar, a Chitpavan Brahmin of the Shandilya gotra, was born to Balakrishna Bhatt and Radha Bai of Versai village in 1827. He was the eldest of three brothers and a sister. According to local lore, he was married at the age of twenty-one and sired six children - three sons and three daughters. He travelled across the Indo-Gangetic plains between 1856 and 1859. But due to a fear of reprisals by the British, he wrote of his travels twenty-four years later and gave the manuscript for safekeeping to a friend. As per his wish, this book was published in 1907, four years after his death in 1903. Mrinal Pande was born in 1946 in Tikamgarh to the well-known Hindi author Shivani and educationist Shukdeo Pant. She has taught at the universities of Allahabad, Delhi and Bhopal, edited the Hindi periodicals Vama and Saptahik Hindustan and worked as editor/ anchor for Star News and Doordarshan. In 2000, she became India's first woman chief editor of a multi-edition Hindi daily, Hindustan. She has also been the secretary general of the Editors' Guild of India and was the founder president of the Indian Women's Press Corps. After her retirement in 2009, she was appointed chairperson of India's national broadcaster, Prasar Bharati. Mrinal writes in both Hindi and English. Her work includes fi ction, plays and essays on contemporary India and its women. She was awarded the Padmashree in 2006 for her services in the field of journalism. She lives in Delhi with her husband and has two daughters.

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