"We were unheeding in those days": An interview with Ashok Shahane. Issue 1 (4th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nerlekar, Anjali
• Is Part Of: Journal of postcolonial writing. Volume 53:Issue 1/2(2017)
• Page Start: 108
• Page End: 118
• Publication Date: 2017-03-04
• Subjects: Little magazines -- Bengali literature -- Phan Thi Kim Phuc -- Arun Kolatkar -- Bhalchandra Nemade -- Allen Ginsberg -- Pras Prakashan; English literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Postcolonialism in literature -- Periodicals; 820.9
• DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2017.1295813
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-9855

Abstract

Abstract: Ashok Shahane is one of the very important figures in the publishing of Marathi literature, both in terms of his involvement in the little magazine movement, and through the Bombay publishing house Pras Prakashan, which has brought out the work of many of the most significant Marathi writers. In this interview, conducted in Marathi in 2015 and 2016, and translated into English by his interviewer Anjali Nerlekar, he describes his admiration for Bengali literature and his early ventures in magazine publishing in Bombay in the 1960s. He goes on to discuss his collaborations with Bhalchandra Nemade and Arun Kolatkar, his own work as a literary critic, and his association with Allen Ginsberg during and after the American poet's 1962 visit to India. Shahane also discusses his little magazine Aso, and the work of Pras Prakashan.