Background
She is the daughter of Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere.
She is the daughter of Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere.
She has a Doctor of Philosophy from Pune University in Marathi literature.
Mission Dhere was a lecturer and producer in the Educational Media Research Center at Pune University during 1983-1988, and then had a short stint in the Maharashtra State Education Institution. Dhere has been on the senate of Pune University and the Advisory Committee of Akashvani. In February 1999, along with poet Namdev Dhondo Mahanor and writer Ram Balkrishna Shewalkar, she resigned from all literary organizations connected with the state government to protest against the tirade by Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, who had publicly said earlier that “littérateurs have contributed nothing to society.” She said that it would be difficult for her to continue functioning on those committees as “the government did not consider it to be its duty to protect literature and culture.”.
Quotations: “littérateurs have contributed nothing to society.”.
She was a member of three Maharashtra state government bodies related to cultural and literary activities: Lokasahitya Samiti, Sahitya Sanskruti Mandal, and Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha.
