Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture

315 Pages·2016·17.8 MB·English

by  Anjali Nerlekar

UC Irvine
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Title
Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture
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978-0-8101-3273-3
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Nerlekar, Anjali
Publication Date
2016-04-21

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Bombay Modern
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Bombay Modern
Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture
Anjali Nerlekar
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To my mother, Saraswati Kadekodi (1940–1984).
She is at the source of all I do.

My pencil is sharpened at both ends
. . .
what I write with one end
comes out as English
what I write with the other
comes out as Marathi
—Arun Kolatkar, “Making Love to a Poem”