Check other Important Days and Dates in February 2024. For his selfless service to humanity, Baba Amte received numerous international honours, including the 1988 UN Human Rights Prize, a portion ...

Murlidhar Devidas Amte, better known as Baba Amte, was a follower of Ghandi, who dedicated his life to restoring dignity to lepers, the disabled and the marginalized. He died Feb. 9 at 93. Andrea ...

Baba Amte was a social activist and philanthropist who dedicated his life to serving the marginalized and oppressed communities in India. He was born on December 26, 1914, and passed away on ...

Prakash Amte and his wife Mandakini, both doctors, gave up their urban practice to heed Baba Amte’s call for social work Eminent social worker Prakash Amte, who was on Thursday named for the ...

Baba Amte, 93, a widely honored social activist who abandoned a life of privilege in the late 1940s to dedicate himself to lepers and other outcasts, died Feb. 9 at the leprosy shelter he founded ...

India News: 'Charity Destroys, Work Builds' was the mantra of Baba Amte, revered as a saint in his lifetime and as a god by the thousands of lepers he cared for.

Baba Amte, 93, a widely honored social activist who abandoned a life of privilege in the late 1940s to dedicate himself to lepers and other outcasts, died Feb. 9 at the leprosy shelter he founded ...