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Shanta Gokhale—writer, translator and critic—writes in Marathi and English and also translates between the two languages. Among the awards she has received are the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contribution to the performing arts; the Maharashtra State Award for the best novel of the year (for Rita Welinkar and Tya Varshi); the Sahitya Akademi Award for translation; and lifetime achievement awards from Tata Literature Live! and the Ooty Literary Festival.
Jul 26, 2019 · In her 80th year now, Shanta Gokhale shares ideas and experiences with the exuberance of an eight-year-old. The wisdom of her words blends gracefully with her disarming joie-de-vivre, a unique ...
Shanta Gokhale: Translations. 7. The Buildings. As you walk down the road and your eyes fall causally on a building, you are filled with amazement and wondering who could have built these tall, beautiful and impressive buildings and when; and how much money must have been poured into their construction. You saw hundreds of buildings standing ...
Mar 13, 2021 · Shyamchi Aai; Sane Guruji, trs Shanta Gokhale, Puffin, ₹250. The writer is a Mumbai-based freelance journalist. Read Comments . Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn
Shanta Gokhale was born in Dahanu and brought up in Mumbai. She has worked as a lecturer in English at Elphinstone College and H.R. College of Commerce, as a sub-editor with Femina, as a P.R. Executive with Glaxo Laboratories and as arts editor with the Times of India. Gokhale has written two novels in Marathi, Rita Welinkar and Tya Varshi ...
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Shanta Gokhale was born in Dahanu and brought up in Mumbai. She has worked as a lecturer in English at Elphinstone College and H.R. College of Commerce, as a sub-editor with Fermina, as a P.R. Executive with Glaxo Laboratories and as arts editor with the Times of India. Gokhale has written two novels in Marathi, Rita Webinar and Tay Varsha.
Shanta Gokhale’s Crowfall (originally in Marathi) starts with a paradox. Before she can begin telling her story, Anima, the central character, destroys the twelve volumes of her twelve-year-long chronicle of grief and nightmares that started with the mindless murder of her husband in the 1993 Bombay riots. “Free at last,” she mutters ...
