GATEWAY LITFEST is a literary jamboree of regional writers and writings, with perhaps the largest such gatherings ever. It is a great confluence of regional literature in India. Many festivals, dominated by English and to some extent Hindi, have treated regional writers as step-sisters. Gateway Lit Fest is an attempt to correct this imbalance and impropriety by bringing together vernacular languages into English and Hindi-dominated mainstream literary jamborees.
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Saleel Wagh (1967) is a leading contemporary Marathi poet. He has seven collections of poetry to his credit. Nivadak Kavita, Aadhichya Kavita, Sadhyachya Kavita, Racecourse Ani Itar kavita (2008), Junya…
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The Primeval Woman in the City: Modernism in Poetry of Malika Amar Sheikh
June 19, 2018 Read More...–Sachin Ketkar While reading an anthology of Marathi women’s poetry titled Aahvan: Maharashtra Raajyachya Nirmitinantarchya Kalalatil Nivdak Stri Kavitecha Pratinidhik Sangrah edited by Vijaya Sangvai and Shirish Pai (1990), I…
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