Family
Karve was the daughter-in-law of Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve. Her husband Dinkar was an educator and a Principal of Fergusson College. A son, Δ€nand, of Dinkar and Irawati, runs an NGO in Pune called Arti. Her youngest daughter Gauri Deshpande was a well known Marathi writer of short stories and poems. Her eldest daughter Jai Nimbkar who lives in Phaltan is also a writer of novels and short stories. Jai's daughter Nandini Nimbkar is a distinguished alumna of University of Florida, USA. Priyadarshini Karve, Anand's daughter has been working on developing biomass energy technologies and their dissemination in rural areas since 1991.
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