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Prof. Ramesh Gupta’s very firsts book ‘Juduche Shet’ (Magic Farm) bagged the central award when he was 23, and a teacher. The second ‘Jwala Ani Fule’ (Flames and Flowers) written in collaboration with Baba Araote won the state literary award, when he was 25. With Hindi as a mother tongue his writing in Marathi made him a well-known signature in Maharashtra. Born in 1937, at ‘Warora’ where Amte’s famous Anandwan is located, in a lower middle class family claiming caste relations with ‘Jay Shankar Prasad’, he earned while learning Topped in Nagpur University in B.A. despite being an external candidate. Happened to step in a college not as a student but as a lecturer in history. In his upward ascent, he shifted to Chandrapur, Nagpur and ultimately to Delhi. Worked on every desk of newspapers for livelihood and adventure leaving his teaching profession. He ventured in various spheres during this journey despite being of family man with limited resources. He deems all his socio political and economic failures as ferteilizers for a rich harvest in human endeavored in film making with a few telecasts from Doordarshan. Attached with a few publishing houses on regular basis he devotes his pare time and resources for research and development in ‘Collective Yoga’.