Ranganath Ramachandra Diwakar (30 September 1894 – 15 January 1990) was an Indian writer and politician from

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

Biography

R. R. Diwakar was born on 30 September 1894. From the very beginning, he was interested in writing. He made many efforts to unify the

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

linguistic regions. He joined the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

during the independence movement. Later he became a member of the

Constituent Assembly A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution. Members of a constituent assembly may be elected b ...

and Provisional Parliament of India from

Bombay State Bombay State was a large Indian state created in 1950 from the erstwhile Bombay Province, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Province (in British India roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Mah ...

. He served as the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Nehru cabinet (from 1 April 1949 to 15 April 1952). He was elected as a member of the

Rajya Sabha Rajya Sabha (Council of States) is the upper house of the Parliament of India and functions as the institutional representation of India’s federal units — the states and union territories.https://rajyasabha.nic.in/ It is a key component o ...

from Bombay State on 3 April 1952, but resigned on 13 June 1952. Within two days he was appointed the

Governor of Bihar The governor of Bihar is the nominal head of the Indian state of Bihar. The governor is appointed by the president of India. Arif Mohammad Khan is the current governor of Bihar. Former President Zakir Husain and Ram Nath Kovind were two such ...

(15 June 1952 to 5 July 1957). He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1962 from

where he served till 1968. After 1968, he distanced himself from politics and wrote several books in English, Kannada and

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

. He died on 15 January 1990.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Diwakar, R. R. Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha 1894 births 1990 deaths Governors of Bihar Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka Members of the Constituent Assembly of India Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra Kannada-language writers Hindi-language writers English-language writers from India Writers from Karnataka Ministers for information and broadcasting of India Writers from the Kingdom of Mysore