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The great Marathi writer Urmila is known for her frank and direct style of writing, which reflects her own experiences of the myriad difficulties of being a woman and that,…
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Synaptic Narratives and Half-Bodied Women: Poetics and Practice of Vilas Sarang’s avant-garde writing
October 29, 2019 Read More...(Previously published in Journal of Higher Education and Research Society: A Refereed International Journal, Vol 4 Issue I, ISSN: 2349-0209, April 2016, 97-107) ‘Literary creation is pre-eminently a synaptic activity’,…
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The biggest challenges faced by poetry today is the challenge of freedom. No way of writing is sacrosanct. The challenge lies in remaining true to yourself and create something original, rather than to contrive, a practice that is usually seen in contemporary poems,
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