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	In 2000, she was selected for the [[Basava Puraskar]], conferred by the [[Karnataka]] Government. She is also the recipient of the [[G.D.Birla International Award]] for Humanism ; the [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] (1999);<ref>{{cite web \|title=Jamnalal Bajaj Awards Archive \|url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/2010 \|publisher=[[Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation]]}}</ref> the [[Janaki Devi Bajaj Award]];<ref>{{cite news\|title=Veteran freedom fighter Saraswathi Gora dies\|url=http://www.oneindia.com/2006/08/19/veteran-freedom-fighter-saraswathi-gora-dies-1155971480.html\|access-date=5 February 2017\|publisher=[[Oneindia]]\|date=19 August 2006}}</ref> and the Potti Sriramulu [[Telugu University]] Award.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Saraswathi Gora selected for Basava Puraskar\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2001/04/05/stories/0405402h.htm\|work=[[The Hindu]]\|date=2001-04-05\|access-date=5 February 2017}}{{dead link\|date=April 2021\|bot=medic}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}}</ref>		In 2000, she was selected for the [[Basava Puraskar]], conferred by the [[Karnataka]] Government. She is also the recipient of the [[G.D.Birla International Award]] for Humanism; the [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] (1999);<ref>{{cite web \|title=Jamnalal Bajaj Awards Archive \|url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/2010 \|publisher=[[Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation]]}}</ref> the [[Janaki Devi Bajaj Award]];<ref>{{cite news\|title=Veteran freedom fighter Saraswathi Gora dies\|url=http://www.oneindia.com/2006/08/19/veteran-freedom-fighter-saraswathi-gora-dies-1155971480.html\|access-date=5 February 2017\|publisher=[[Oneindia]]\|date=19 August 2006}}</ref> and the Potti Sriramulu [[Telugu University]] Award.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Saraswathi Gora selected for Basava Puraskar\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2001/04/05/stories/0405402h.htm\|work=[[The Hindu]]\|date=2001-04-05\|access-date=5 February 2017}}{{dead link\|date=April 2021\|bot=medic}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}}</ref>
	[[File:Saraswathi Gora And Gora.jpg\|thumb\|alt=The Goras\|Saraswathi Gora with her husband Gora]]		[[File:Saraswathi Gora And Gora.jpg\|thumb\|alt=The Goras\|Saraswathi Gora with her husband Gora]]

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{{Short description|Indian social activist (1912–2006)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2016}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Saraswathi Gora
| image = Saraswathi Gora.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|28 September 1912}}
| birth_place = India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|08|19|1912|09|28|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Vijayawada]], India
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| occupation = Social worker
| known_for = Co-founder of the [[Atheist Centre]]
| spouse = [[Goparaju Ramachandra Rao|Gora]]
| children = (9)[[Lavanam]]<br>[[Chennupati Vidya]]
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| relatives = [[Hemalatha Lavanam]] (daughter-in-law)
| awards = [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] (1999)
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'''Saraswathi Gora''' (28 September 1912 – 19 August 2006) was an Indian [[social activist]] who served as leader of the [[Atheist Centre]] for many years, campaigning against [[untouchability]] and the [[caste]] system.

== Biography ==
In the 1930s, Saraswathi championed and performed marriages of [[devadasi]]s and of widows remarriages along with her husband [[Goparaju Ramachandra Rao|Gora]]. After learning about their efforts to abolish untouchability and the caste system, and towards social reform, they were invited to [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s [[ashram]] in [[Sevagram]] in 1944, where they stayed for two weeks.<ref>{{cite news|title=Saraswathi Gora selected for Basava Puraskar|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2001/04/05/stories/0405402h.htm|access-date=31 January 2018|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=5 April 2001}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Along with her husband, Saraswathi established the [[Atheist Center]] in 1940. Their goal was to promote human values based on [[atheism]], [[rationalism]] and [[Gandhism]].{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}

A political activist of India's freedom movement, she was imprisoned during the [[Quit India movement]]. She went to jail carrying her two-and-half-year old son, Niyanta.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}

== Personal life ==

Her autobiography ''My Life With Gora'' was published (in Telugu) in 2012. She died of lung infection on 19 August 2006 at [[Vijayawada]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.hindu.com/2006/08/20/stories/2006082015870900.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121021123416/http://www.hindu.com/2006/08/20/stories/2006082015870900.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = 21 October 2012 | title = Saraswathi Gora passes away | date = 20 August 2006 | work = [[The Hindu]] }}</ref>

== Awards and recognition ==

In 2000, she was selected for the [[Basava Puraskar]], conferred by the [[Karnataka]] Government. She is also the recipient of the [[G.D.Birla International Award]] for Humanism ; the [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] (1999);<ref>{{cite web |title=Jamnalal Bajaj Awards Archive |url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/2010 |publisher=[[Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation]]}}</ref> the [[Janaki Devi Bajaj Award]];<ref>{{cite news|title=Veteran freedom fighter Saraswathi Gora dies|url=http://www.oneindia.com/2006/08/19/veteran-freedom-fighter-saraswathi-gora-dies-1155971480.html|access-date=5 February 2017|publisher=[[Oneindia]]|date=19 August 2006}}</ref> and the Potti Sriramulu [[Telugu University]] Award.<ref>{{cite news|title=Saraswathi Gora selected for Basava Puraskar|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2001/04/05/stories/0405402h.htm|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=2001-04-05|access-date=5 February 2017}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
[[File:Saraswathi Gora And Gora.jpg|thumb|alt=The Goras|Saraswathi Gora with her husband Gora]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.indian-skeptic.org/html/is_v03/3-10-2.htm A short biography of Saraswathi Gora] in ''[[Indian Skeptic]]'' by Sunanda Shet
* [http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/Aug192006/update639462006819.asp Obituary] in ''[[Deccan Herald]]''
* [http://www.newsfix.de/news/321/detail.php?id=36871&item_start=0 Obituary at www.newsfix.de]

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