Mulshankar Harinand Mulani (1 November 1867 â€" 14 December 1957) was
a Gujarati playwright from the Gujarati theatre of India. After
working as a village development officer and as an editor with a
weekly newspaper, he joined the Mumbai Gujarati Natak Mandali, a
theatre company, where he worked as a playwright for decades. He wrote
more than fifty plays on social, mythological and historical subjects
including commercially or critically successful plays like Rajbeej
(1891), Ajabkumari (1899, 1912), Saubhagya Sundari (1901), Nandbatrisi
(1906) and Krishnacharitra (1906).He was born on 1 November 1867 in
Chavand[1] (now in Amreli district, Gujarat, India) to the religious
Prashnora Nagar Brahmin family of Harinand Dayanad and Mankunwar.[2]
He was a descendant of Mula Bhatt who had served as a minister of
Nawanagar State before 10 or 12 generations.[2] He studied until the
fourth standard in English medium in Junagadh and had read religious
works and Sanskrit books at his home,[2][3][4] later going on to study
with a Sanskrit scholar for some time.[2]Mulani started a job as a
village development officer in Dhari, for a salary of ten rupees, but
subsequently left to go to Bombay (now Mumbai). After a period of
struggles, he joined a weekly Satyavakta as a proofreader for a salary
of twenty rupees. He covered true stories in his column, Ghanghata and
became popular. Later he served as an editor of the weekly.[3][4]
a Gujarati playwright from the Gujarati theatre of India. After
working as a village development officer and as an editor with a
weekly newspaper, he joined the Mumbai Gujarati Natak Mandali, a
theatre company, where he worked as a playwright for decades. He wrote
more than fifty plays on social, mythological and historical subjects
including commercially or critically successful plays like Rajbeej
(1891), Ajabkumari (1899, 1912), Saubhagya Sundari (1901), Nandbatrisi
(1906) and Krishnacharitra (1906).He was born on 1 November 1867 in
Chavand[1] (now in Amreli district, Gujarat, India) to the religious
Prashnora Nagar Brahmin family of Harinand Dayanad and Mankunwar.[2]
He was a descendant of Mula Bhatt who had served as a minister of
Nawanagar State before 10 or 12 generations.[2] He studied until the
fourth standard in English medium in Junagadh and had read religious
works and Sanskrit books at his home,[2][3][4] later going on to study
with a Sanskrit scholar for some time.[2]Mulani started a job as a
village development officer in Dhari, for a salary of ten rupees, but
subsequently left to go to Bombay (now Mumbai). After a period of
struggles, he joined a weekly Satyavakta as a proofreader for a salary
of twenty rupees. He covered true stories in his column, Ghanghata and
became popular. Later he served as an editor of the weekly.[3][4]
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