Mulshankar Mohanlal Bhatt was Gujarati translator, biographer, children's writer and educationist from Gujarat, India.
14 Facts About Mulshankar Bhatt
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Mulshankar Bhatt is known for translating works of Jules Verne in Gujarati.
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Mulshankar Bhatt was born on 25 June 1907 at Bhavnagar, India to Mohanlal and Revaben.
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Mulshankar Bhatt studied music as a main subject and Hindi-Gujarati as secondary subjects and graduated from Gujarat Vidyapith in 1927.
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Mulshankar Bhatt later joined its sister institute Gharshala as the teacher and served from 1939 to 1945.
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Mulshankar Bhatt joined Gramdakshinamurti, Ambala as the principal in 1945 and served till 1953.
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Mulshankar Bhatt taught at Lakbharti Gram Vidyapith and served as its rector and served as principal of Lokseva Mahavidyalaya from 1953 to 1965.
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Mulshankar Bhatt retired in 1965 and continued to serve in honorary positions in several institutes such as Dakshinamurti, Lokshakti Sangathan, Gujarat Nai Talim Sangh, Gujarat Acharyakul.
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Mulshankar Bhatt is well known for translating several works of Jules Verne in Gujarati such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as Sagarsamrat, The Clipper of the Clouds as Gaganraj, Journey to the Center of the Earth as Patal Pravesh, The Mysterious Island as Sahasikoni Srishti, Around the World in Eighty Days as Enshi Divasma Prithvini Pradakshina, Five Weeks in a Balloon as Baloon Pravas.
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Mulshankar Bhatt translated Les Miserables by Victor Hugo as Dukhiyara in Gujarati.
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Mulshankar Bhatt edited articles of Swami Anand as Dharatini Arati.
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Mulshankar Bhatt translated The Power of Darkness, a play by Leo Tolstoy as Andharana Seemada.
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Mulshankar Bhatt had studied child psychology and worked on theories of education.
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Mulshankar Bhatt married Hansa and had four children: Bakul, Vikram, Urmila and Meena.