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Venu Chitale was born on 28 December, 1910 in Shirol, Kolhapur in Maharashtra, India, is a broadcaster. Discover Venu Chitale's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Occupation BBC Radio broadcaster, secretary to George Orwell
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 28 December 1910
Birthday 28 December
Birthplace Shirol, Kolhapur in Maharashtra, India
Date of death 1 January 1995 - Mumbai, India
Died Place Mumbai, India
Nationality India

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2017

Chitale's life is recorded in a chapter in Vijaya Deo's Sakhe Soyare, a book in Marathi. In 2017, the BBC produced a video about her.

1995

Chitale died on 1 January 1995. Her life is recorded in a chapter in Sakhe Soyare, a book in Marathi authored by Vijaya Deo. In 2017, the BBC produced a video about her.

1950

She published her first novel, In Transit, in 1950, about three generations of an Indian family during the interwar years. Anand wrote the preface. That same year, she married Ganesh Khare, a chartered accountant, and became known as Leela Ganesh Khare. They had a daughter, Nandini Apte. In February 1951 a reception by the publisher Hind Kitabs was held in Bombay, where Chitale was introduced by M. C. Chagla, chief justice of Bombay. She also wrote for Navshakti, a Marathi newspaper, and spoke occasionally on All India Radio. In 1993, she published another book, Incognito, using the pen name 'Weenoo'.

1947

Chitale left Liverpool for Mumbai on 4 December 1947, on the RMS Empress of Australia. That year she assisted Pandit with refugee women and children in the camps set up in Delhi following India's Partition.

1945

In 1945 she visited India to attend the eighteenth All India Women's Conference in Hyderabad, held 28 December 1945 to 1 January 1946. There, she was introduced by Sarojini Naidu and spoke of the little interest in India she found in England; she suggested to Indians to learn as many Indian languages as possible to encourage more unity. Chitale later recounted her time in England:

1944

Around 1944, Chitale began working for Krishna Menon at the India League in London. Towards the end of 1947, after India's independence, she returned there and assisted Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit at refugee camps set up in Delhi following the Partition of India. Her first novel, In Transit, was published in 1950.

Around 1944, Chitale began working for Krishna Menon at the India League in London. There, she became acquainted with Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Other members at that time included Bhicoo Batlivala, Ellen Wilkinson and Aneurin Bevan. She was also elected a member of The Asiatic Society.

1943

In 1943, Chitale contributed the chapter on the European refugee children's exhibition in E. M. Forster, Ritchie Calder, Cedric Dover and Hsiao Ch'ien's book Talking to India. How popular she was with Indian listeners was documented in 1943 in an unclear Report on Indian Programmes. BBC producer Trevor Hill later recalled in his memoirs Over the Airwaves, that during his early years with the BBC's Overseas Services at 200 Oxford Street, when he was still in his teens "the person I knew best and enjoyed working with was a diminutive, cheerful young Indian woman from Poona, Venu Chitale". Not understanding Marathi, he once played her broadcast from end to beginning. According to Sejal Sutaria, who has written on Chitale, her programmes "illustrate how Indians hired by the BBC during the Second World War faced conflicting needs—to establish their solidarity with Britain during the war while maintaining their allegiance to Indian independence from the Raj".

1941

In 1941, in one programme titled "The kitchen in wartime: some suggestions for doing without meat", Chitale gave her suggestion of a vegetarian alternative to sausage and mash and spoke of what she thought an Indian housewife might do in Britain with the limited availability of ingredients and fuel; in another, she talked of "appetising curries". In 1942 she approached Orwell's wife, Eileen Blair, with a request to help out with Blair's In the Kitchen series on the BBC Home Service. Chitale also talked to a British audience on the cooking series The Kitchen Front and taught listeners vegetarian cooking at a time when meat was rationed. In addition she broadcast recipes to Indians in India in the programme In Your Kitchen.

1940

In 1940, at the request of Z. A. Bukhari, Chitale began her career with BBC Radio as secretary to the BBC talks producer George Orwell with the India Section of BBC Radio's Eastern Service. There, her contemporaries included Una Marson, Mulk Raj Anand, Balraj Sahni and Princess Indira of Kapurthala. Every month she wrote and delivered a programme preview, which Orwell edited, and regularly read out translated scripts in Marathi, her mother tongue.

1934

Chitale was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India, and was in England between 1934 and late 1947. In 1940, after assisting with volunteer work in a local air raid precaution unit in Oxford, she moved to London to work with Orwell, then BBC Radio's talks producer. She became a broadcaster for both the India section of the BBC's Eastern Service, where she read news and gave recipes in Marathi, and the BBC Home Service, where she taught British listeners vegetarian cooking at a time when meat was rationed.

Chitale and Du Preez travelled to England together after an astrologer had predicted family troubles should Chitale marry. She subsequently entered University College London, where in 1934 she studied Montessori ways of learning. At the onset of the Second World War in 1939, they were both at the University of Oxford; Chitale registered as an external student while Du Preez was studying journalism. There, she volunteered at a local air raid precaution unit, where her role included alerting locals to bombings and assisting in rescues.

1910

Venu Dattatreye Chitale, also known as Leela Ganesh Khare (28 December 1910/12 – 1 January 1995), was an Indian writer, BBC Radio broadcaster, and secretary to George Orwell during the early years of the Second World War.

Venu Chitale was born in Shirol, Kolhapur, in Maharashtra, India. Her date of birth is given as 28 December 1910 in the 1939 England and Wales Register, and as 1912 in Sahitya Akademi's Who's Who of Indian Writers (1961). She was the second youngest of seven children and raised by her older siblings following the death of both her parents. After attending Huzurpaga, one of the oldest girls schools in Pune, she went to St. Columba High School in Mumbai's Gamdevi district before gaining admission to Wilson College, Mumbai, where she was a boarder. There she met the Afrikaaner teacher Johanna Adriana Quinta Du Preez, who was impressed by Chitale's interest in theatre.