Keshavram Kashiram Shastri was born on 28 July 1905 at Mangarol in Junagadh district of Gujarat.
Education
He was among the dignitaries who attended the first meeting of VHP in 1964 and since then continuously associated with the VHP work and was head of the Gujarat unit also. K. K. Shastri completed matriculation from Mumbai University in 1922. Later he studied poetry, Sanskrit language and grammar.
Career
He did his Diploma in Literature from Saurashtra University. Later he joined Sanskrit Pathshala as a part-time teacher. He became assistant editor of Prajabandhu (Gujarati weekly) in Ahmedabad in 1936.
He worked with Gujarat Vernacular Society and Gujarat Assembly in 1937.
He joined Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Learning and Research in 1958. He also worked as an honorary lecturer of Gujarati at the Bachelor of Journalism Institute of Learning and Research.
He was an associate professor of Sanskrit and Gujarati at the Bachelor of Divinity Women"s College. He joined the Gujarat Research Society in 1961 as the honorary Regulator.He also was a "KULPATI" of Bharatiya Sanskar Dham.
He was a mentor to the current Prime Minister of IndiaNarendra Modi.
He died September 9, 2006 in Ahmedabad at the age of 101.