Ranganath Ramchandra Diwakar was born on September 30, 1894, in Bilagi. He received his education at Belgaum and Hubli, graduated from Fergusson College in Poona in 1916, received his M.A. in 1918, and then accepted a position as a professor of English at Rajaram College in Kolhapur.
He graduated from law school in 1921, which gave him the confidence to start participating in public life by joining the Non-Cooperation Movement.
In 1923, he founded the weekly publication "Karmaveera," rose to the position of editor of the Kannada monthly magazine "Kasturi," and served as editor of the English weekly "Nava Shakti." From 1926 to 1929, he served as the Karnataka Provincial Congress Committee's secretary before taking over as president until 1934.
In 1930, he took part in the movement for salt(Uppina Satyagraha). He assumed control of the daily news publication "Samyukta Karnataka" in 1935.
In 1942, his involvement in the "Quit India" campaign was particularly important. He joined the Congress Constitution Committee in 1945 and was appointed as secretary of the Karnataka Province Congress Parliamentary Board. In 1946, he was chosen to represent Bombay Province in the Constituent Assembly.
And in the year 1948, he became one of the
Indian Parlimentary observers to the 37th session of the Inter
Parliamentary Union Conference in Rome. He was the
Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Nehru cabinet from 1 April 1949 to 15 April 1952. Diwakar was
elected as member of the Rajya Sabha from Bombay State on 3 April 1952 but resigned on 13 June
1952, within a few months when was appointed as the Governor of
Bihar and served till 1957.
He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1962 and remained there till 1968. After 1968, he distanced himself from politics and wrote several books in English, Kannada, Sanskrit and Hindi. His books on the lives of Sri Aurobindo, Paramahamsa, Sri Ramakrishna and Bhagawan Buddha in this series have become extremely popular. The first one was translated in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and Bengali.
R. R. Diwakar was a nationalist, philosopher, and scholar, to put it briefly. His writings in Kannada and English are reflections of his understanding of yoga, culture, and philosophy. He served as s the President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee also.
At his death on 15 January 1990, he was the last surviving member of the first Nehru cabinet.
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