Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis addressed a gathering of the Chitpavan Brahmin community in Nashik on Sunday. He emphasised the need to eliminate caste-based discrimination while ...

Let's learn about Anandi Gopal Joshi, India’s first female doctor. She was also the first Indian woman to earn a two-year medical degree (MD) in the United States! At just 17, Joshi faced serious ...

Dr. Joshi was born and raised in a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family. As was the practice at that time and due to pressure from her mother, she was married at the age of 9 to Gopalrao Joshi ...

Shirdharpant Tilak was one of a clutch of Chitpavan Brahmin writers who had become close allies of the emerging group of non-Brahmin writers in the mid-1920s. His story is an example of how the ...

BJP icon VD Savarkar, a Chitpavan brahmin, not only was a non-vegetarian, "many say he even ate beef", said Karnataka Health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao today, triggering off the next massive ...

The Chitpavan Brahmins from the Thane-Kalyan-Dombivli belt have come up with a wish list in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections. The Akhil Bharatiya Bahubhashik Brahmin Mahasangh wants job ...

However, among the chitpavan brahmin community, there is a tradition of worshipping the goddess on the eighth day of Navratri in various parts of Goa. The worship is prevalent among the community ...

“Savarkar, a 'Chitpavan Brahmin', used to eat meat. He was a non-veg eater and he was not against cow slaughter. He was modern in a way,” he said at an event here on Wednesday. “Some say ...

Balaji Janardan Bhanu, nicknamed 'Nana,' was born in Satara in 1742 to a Chitpavan Brahmin family. During the reign of the First Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath Bhat, his grandfather Balaji Mahadaji ...

He was born on 23 July 1856, in Bombay during the British Raj to a Hindu Chitpavan Brahmin family in the Ratnagiri district. He died on 1 August 1920. Titled 'Lokmanya' by the public, Keshav ...