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Webmasters Story of the Month The pioneer of blank verse Atmaram Raoji Deshpande ' Anil' , the progressive poet Saratchandra Muktibodh, the lyricist B.B. Borkar passed away during last three years. Amongst the living the older generation has Yashwant and Kusumagraj, the nationalist poets; Indira Sant, the poetess of tender feelings, the trio who ushered fresh air into poetry: Vinda Karandikar, Mangesh Padgaonkar and Vasant Bapat. While the iconoclats like Dilip Chitre ' Grace' and Amrun Kolatkar experimented with new frontiers of poetic imagery, the angry ' Dalit' poets like Namdev Dhasal, Daya Pawar and Kesav Meshram trailed a new path and exposed the sham in middle class hypocritic society and raised much storm of controversy. Thus Marathi poetry passed through all the shades and hues of the spectrum, which is natural, in a fast-changing society and various levels of readership response. Religious or mystic poetry is conspicuously absent. ' Howl' is the hell raiser' s lingo fairy . Reference URL: http://sanskrit.bhaarat.com/Doc_Project/marathi/documents/marathi1.html |