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As Is, Where Is
About the Book
Lost Images (For Ashay) I am backing home where you died. One year later, to find Changes that mask our surrender To the inevitability of life. I remember my Ambulance Ride With my friend whom you called Daddy. It took me a whole year To under
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Says Tuka-Selected poems of Tukaram
About the Book
1938″2009 was an outstanding bilingual poet Marathi and English, fiction writer, translator and critic, with numerous publications, honours and awards to his credit. In particular, he won the Sahitya Akademi Award 1994 for Ekoon Kavita ” 1, his book of Marathi poems, and the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 1994 for Says Tuka Penguin Classics, 1991, his English translation of Tukaram?s selected verse. From 2002 to 2009 he was honorary editor of the quarterly journal New Quest. He was also a recognized painter and film-maker.
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The Bombay Quartet
About the Book
Jayant Deshpande was born in India in 1952, but lived abroad for many years before returning to India in 1984. He was educated in India, Africa, and then largely in Canada, where he graduated from Western University and the University of Toronto. His interests include music, photography, literature and translation, science, philosophy as well as essay writing. Since 2002 he contributed to the Mumbai-based quarterly New Quest and was later its assistant editor till 2010. He has published his English translations of selected short fiction in Marathi by Dilip Chitre, Bhau Padhye and Baburao Bagul.