Early life His grand parents were basically from Hondadahakkalu – Antarvalli (near Mirjan, Kumta taluka, Uttara Kannada district) and, were Konkani speaking people.
[3] Education Dinakar spent his early childhood at Alageri, a tiny village near Ankola where his father was working as Government Primary School Teacher.
He completed Higher Secondary education by passing Matriculation at Government High School, Karwar (Headquarters of Uttara Kannada District).
She has two sons - Ranjit and Sanjit and one grand daughter Anusha who's also a practising advocate at the Bombay High Court.
Death Dinakar Desai had chronic diabetes; the health condition aggravated and he died at Mumbai on 6 November 1982.
In this regard, he joined the Servants of India Society which was an organisation that was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
Later, he also went to the Bijapur and Dharwad districts of Karnataka to assist in providing relief when a severe drought had set into those regions.
He also started a Kannada language weekly Jansevaka in Ankola to create social and political awareness.
He shaped his career under the guidance of eminent socialist leader Sri S M Joshi; with dedication to service he served as life member and Head of the Mumbai Office of the Society.
Servants of India Society deputed Dinakar Desai to Bijapur district to assess the situation.
Based on his comprehensive report, Servants of India Society constituted a Committee with Dinakar Desai as member-secretary.
He resigned to the post of the Union with a view to concentrate on social work and education in his home district Uttara Kannada).
Dinakar Desai was active as member-secretary of Mumbai State Trade Union Congress for 10 years.
When labour strike broke out in Gokak Textile Mills (Belgaum District), Servants of India Society deputed Dinakar Desai to assess the situation.
Government of India deputed Dinakar Desai as member-secretary for the convention of the International Labour Organization held at Copenhagen, Denmark in November 1945.
After attending the convention in Denmark, he visited England and studied problems being faced by the marine labourers.
Dinakar Desai represented India as one of the members to convention of the International Labour Organization held at Seattle, USA in 1946.
As tenants they were required to pay huge amount of land rent, and, with poor returns were subjected to great suffering.
The British Government deported Dinakar Desai from Uttara Kannada district under Defence of India Rules for a period of 5 years from 1940 to 1945.
As member of Servants of India Society, Dinakar Desai was busy throughout, and, he was providing guidance to the farmers’ agitation, besides visiting the district whenever necessary.
At a later period, when Shri Ramakrishna Hegde, the then Finance Minister of Karnataka State was visiting Kumta (along with Shri Dharmaveer, State Governor), Dinakar Desai took mass rally of farmers and urged upon him the need for regularization of forest land for cultivation purpose.
This move yielded results as Ramakrishna Hegde agreed to regularize one lakh acre of forest land for cultivation purpose.
4 Educationist: Kanara Welfare Trust:[5] Dinakar Desai founded Kanara Welfare Trust (KWT) in the year 1953 with headquarters at Ankola, with the objective of spreading education to the rural children by establishing educational institutions in Uttara Kannada District.
The educational institutions were established by raising contributions from the philanthropists with whom Dinakar Desai had good contact.
With the dissolution of Lok Sabha, mid term poll was declared in 1971; Dinakar Desai contested again but was defeated.
While pursuing higher education he came under the influence of eminent professors and literary personalities like V Seetharamaiah (ವೀಸಿ), T N Shrikantaiah (ತೀನಂಶ್ರೀ), T S Venkannaiah in Bengaluru; and, B M Srikantaiah (ಬಿಎಂಶ್ರೀ) in Mysuru.
Ammembal Anand was the editor; leading literary figures in the District like Gourish Kaikini were contributing regularly.
Dinakar Desai was playing active and leading role in writing critical assessment of the current affairs.
Most attractive and important item was a short poem of four lines (ಚುಟಕ) written by Dinakar Desai under the caption ಭತ್ತದ ತೆನೆ (bhattada tene).
Dinakar Desai toured England in 1959 at the invitation of the British Council and paid visit to the educational institutions there.