Mridula Sinha
| Mridula Sinha | |
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| मृदुला सिन्हा | |
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| Governor of Goa | |
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Assumed office 26 August 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Om Prakash Kohli |
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27 November 1942 Muzaffarpur, Bihar |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Ram Kripal Sinha |
| Residence | Cabo Raj Bhavan, Dona Paula, Goa |
| Religion | Hinduism |
Mridula Sinha (Hindi: मृदुला सिन्हा; born 27 November 1942) is the Governor of Goa. She is also a renowned writer in Hindi literature and a politician.
Mridula Sinha was born on 27 November 1942 in the village of Chhapra Dharampur Yadu in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar state in India. Her father was Babu Chhabile Singh and her mother was Anupa Devi. She attended the local school in Chhapra and later studied at Balika Vidyapeeth, a residential school for girls in Lakhisarai district. From a young age, Mridula developed an interest in Hindi literature and exhibited a talent for writing prose in Hindi.
Shortly before she completed her bachelor's degree, Mridula's parents arranged for her to marry Dr. Ram Kripal Sinha, who at that time a college lecturer based in Muzaffarpur town, Bihar. After marriage, Mridula continued her studies and took a post-graduate degree in Psychology. She then took a job as a lecturer in the Dr. S.K. Sinha Women's College in Motihari. Shortly afterwards, her husband received his doctorate degree. She left the job and started a school in Muzaffarpur where her husband was working in a college. The school got name and fame in the town for its idealistic character.
Meanwhile, with encouragement from her husband, Mridula honed her writing skills and experimented with the short story format. She was interested in cultural matters and village traditions. She wrote short stories on these topics and on folk tales that she gathered from the villages where she and her husband worked. Many of these stories were published in Hindi language magazines and were later compiled into a two-volume anthology named Bihar ki lok-kathayen ("folk-tales of Bihar"). She also wrote several novels and a biography of Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia titled Ek Thi Rani Aisi Bhi. A film of the same name was later made based on this book.
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