Govind Vinayak Karandikar (23 August 1918 – 14 March 2010), better known as Vindā, was an Indian poet, writer, literary critic, and translator in the Marathi-language.

Early life

Karandikar was born on 23 August 1918, in Dhalavali village in the Devgad taluka present-day

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of Maharashtra.

Works

Karandikar's poetic works include ''Svedgangā'' (River of Sweat) (1949), ''Mrudgandha'' (1954), ''Dhrupad'' (1959), ''Jātak'' (1968), and ''Virupika'' (1980). Two anthologies of his selected poems, ''Sanhita'' (1975) and ''Adimaya'' (1990) were also published. His poetic works for children include ''Rānichā Bāg'' (1961), ''Sashyāche Kān'' (1963), and ''Pari Ga Pari'' (1965). Experimentation has been a feature of Karandikar's Marathi poems. He also translated his own poems in English, which were published as "Vinda Poems" (1975). He also modernized old Marathi literature like

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and ''Amrutānubhawa''. Besides having been a prominent Marathi poet, Karandikar has contributed to Marathi literature as an essayist, a critic, and a translator. He translated Poetics of Aristotle and

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in Marathi. Karandikar's collections of short essays include ''Sparshaachi Palvi'' (1958) and ''Akashacha Arth'' (1965). ''Parampara ani Navata'' (1967), is a collection of his analytical reviews. The trio of poets Vasant Bapat, Vinda Karandikar and

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provided for many years public recitals of their poetry in different towns in

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. Along with Vasant Bapat and Padgaonkar, Karandikar travelled across Maharashtra in the 1960s and 1970s reciting poetry. Karandikar was also a member of a Marathi literary group called "Murgi club", loosely fashioned after the

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. In addition to Karandikar, it included Vasant Bapat, Mangesh Padgaonkar,

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, Sadanand Rege and Shri Pu Bhagwat. They met every month for several years to eat together, engaging each other in wordplay and literary jokes.

Awards

Karandikar was conferred the 39th

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in 2006, which is the highest literary award in India. He was the third Marathi writer to win the

, after Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) and Vishnü Vāman Shirwādkar (

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) (1987). Karandikar also received some other awards for his literary work including the Keshavasut Prize, the Soviet Land Nehru Literary Award, the Kabir Samman, and the

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in 1996.

Death

Vinda Karandikar died on 14 March 2010 at the age of 91 in

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following a brief illness.Marathi poet Vinda Karandikar passes away
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References

External links

Vinda Karandikar
at the

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