Kashi Wali was born September 8, 1925 in Ujjain, India. She was the beloved matriarch of the Kulkarni and Wali family. She was a noted scholar of Linguistics and author of several books on Kashmiri and Marathi syntax and grammar.
She received her MSc. from Banaras Hindu University in Physics, and her MA in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D in Linguistics from Syracuse University. She was research affiliate with Cornell and Syracuse University.
She married Kameshwar C. Wali, the love of her life, in 1952 in Banaras, India. She followed Kamesh to the US in 1958.
She is survived by her husband of sixty-nine years; three daughters, Alaka, Achala and Monona Wali; son-in-law, Richard Hubbard; her brother and sister-in-law, Madhu and Sadhana Kulkarni; and her sister, Usha Kulkarni. She has six beloved grandchildren – Shanti and Eric Hubbard, Dinesh and Kavita Elliott, and Kanchan and Maya Wali Richardson and many nieces and nephews.