ART INTEGRATED PROJECT

PRABHUJEE ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOL

BHUBANSWER-14
SESSION 2020-21
NAME-ARYAN PRADHAN
CLASS-XI,A. ROLL NO.- 03
SUBJECT- ENGLISH
TOPIC- WRITERS OF MARATHI LITERATURE
 CONTENT

Topics Slide no.

• Introduction • 3
• Life of Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade • 4
• Literary career • 5-7
ODISHA
MAHARASHTRA
 BHALCHANDRA VANAJI NEMADE
• Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade (born 1938) is an Indian Marathi
language writer, poet, critic and linguistic scholar. Beginning with
his debut novel Kosala, Nemade brought new dimensions to the
world of Marathi literature. This was followed by a tetralogy
consisting of novels Bidhar, Hool, Jareela and Jhool. In 2013,
Nemade published his magnum opus titled Hindu: Jagnyachi
Samruddha Adgal which is regarded as his masterpiece. Nemade is
a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award as well as the Jnanapith
Award, the highest literary honour in India. In 2013, he was
awarded the Padma Shri.
LIFE OF BHALCHANDRA VANAJI NEMADE

Nemade was born on 27 May 1938 in the village of Sangavi in the Khandesh region of Maharashtra. After
doing his matriculation, he moved to Pune, and received his BA from Fergusson College in Pune and MA in
Linguistics from Deccan College in Pune and English Literature from the Mumbai University in Mumbai. He
received PhD and D.Lit. degrees from North Maharashtra University.[2]

• Nemade worked as a college teacher in several parts of Maharashtra. He spent a year in London
teaching Marathi at the School of Oriental and African Studies. From 1973 to 1986, he taught English at
Marathwada University in Aurangabad. In 1987, he was appointed as professor and head of department
of English at Goa University. In 1991, he joined Mumbai University,from where he retired as the
Gurudeo Tagore Chair for comparative literature studies.During 1960s, Nemade edited Marathi
magazine Vacha
LITERARY CAREER
Nemade wrote his first novel Kosala (Marathi: कोसला)[4] in 1963. It is a fictitious
autobiographical novel of one Pandurang Sangvikar, a youth from rural Maharashtra who
studies in a college in Pune; but it is loosely based on Nemade’s own life in his youth.

Sangvikar, the narrator in Kosala, uses everyday Marathi spoken in rural Maharashtra and his
worldview also reflects that held by residents of rural Maharashtra. Kosala is a chronological
autobiographical narration, yet it employs certain innovative techniques. Thus, Sangvikar
describes one year in his life in the form of a witty diary. As another innovative technique, the
narration describes “historical investigations” often undertaken by Sangvikar and his friend
Suresh Bapat, which ultimately uncover to them the absurdity and tragedy of their present
condition. Kosla is extensively translated into various languages including English, Hindi,
Gujarati, Kannada, Assamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu, Oriya, et al.
After Kosala, Nemade presented a different protagonist, Changadev Patil, through his four novels
Bidhar Hool, Jarila and Jhool . Another tetralogy begins with Hindu – Jagnyachi Samruddha Adgal in
2010 having Khanderao, the archaeologist as its protagonist.

The differences between Sangvikar and Patil are not confined to just their age, profession, habits,
and intellectual and emotional perception: While Sangvikar at times keeps the world at bay or even
rejects the world, Patil is all for the world and is forever engaged in confronting and understanding it.
Sangvikar is mercurial, Patil is more realistic, whereas Khanderao’s consciousness moves across 5000
years to Indus Valley culture in the Hindu tetralogy.

As a critic, Nemade’s contribution rests in initiating Deshivad, a theory that negates globalisation or
internationalism, asserting the value of writers’ native heritage, indicating that Marathi literature
ought to try to revive its native base and explore its indigenous sources. Nemade antagonised his
contemporaries by contending that the short story is a genre inferior to that of the novel.
The prime minister Narendra Modi presenting the 50th
Gyanpith Award to Bhalchandra Nemade on 25 April 2015