Chavya

If Keshavsut had written an essay in prose on the subject of “A Labourer’s Child Facing Starvation,” Kusumavati Deshpande and D. K. Bedekar might not have found it difficult later to understand what poetry really is...

From Balkavi’s cucumber sandwiches to Madhav Julian’s Mughlai biryani, Marathi poetry seems to have been turned into one big restaurant...

Professors in colleges, who delivered long-winded sermons on English poetry, began calling themselves literary critics...

Has anyone yet taken the initiative to compile a dictionary of ghosts and spirits from the Konkan region? Such a dictionary would certainly be more interesting to read than the entries on Konkan writers found in literary encyclopaedias...

No one seems even to realise that labelling Venkatesh Madgulkar as a “rural writer” will do nothing to explain the true power of Banagarwadi.