Muktabai Dixit


Muktabai Dixit was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.

Biography

She was born in December 1901 in the town of Edalabad in Khandesh. After finishing her high school education in Huzurpaga girls' school in Pune in 1922, she received her college education at S. P. College, also in Pune, to obtain her B.A. degree in philosophy and psychology from Mumbai University. After receiving a degree in teaching, she served as a teacher for seven years at Maharani High School in Baroda. In 1935, she obtained a master's degree in Marathi literature from Nagpur University and joined the faculty of Thackersey College of SNDT Women's University in Pune as a professor of Marathi. Her husband owned the shop 'International Book Service', which is located in the Deccan Gymkhana area of Pune.

Literary work

Collections of short stories

  • Manas Lahari
  • Aniruddha Prawaha

Plays

  • Jugar
  • Awaliya

Critiques