Gautam Nadkarni
Born in 1955, Gautam Nadkarni has lived all his life in the city of Mumbai. Educated in a Jesuit school, St Xavier's Boys' Academy, at the age of fifteen, he won the first prize in a short story competition, and one of his essays was read out on All India Radio. He dabbled with free verse in his teens and eventually made his mark in haiku poetry, having more than three hundred poems published in international poetry journals. He also had more than fifty haiga published in haiga journals and was interviewed for his distinctive style. The present book contains a selection of sixty haibun out of Read More...
Fowl Play
Books by Gautam Nadkarni
As someone who grew up in the decades following the country’s independence and studied in Tamil medium and had problems of communicating with people who could not understand why I pronounced Leopold and Leopard similarly and why champagne remained cham-pag-ne to me for a long time, I could fully relate to Gautam Nadkarni’s haibun world where children and some adults constantly have to deal with gaudy green blazers, cats named Nebuchadnezzar, bananas with s
Fowl Play
Books by Gautam Nadkarni
As someone who grew up in the decades following the country’s independence and studied in Tamil medium and had problems of communicating with people who could not understand why I pronounced Leopold and Leopard similarly and why champagne remained cham-pag-ne to me for a long time, I could fully relate to Gautam Nadkarni’s haibun world where children and some adults constantly have to deal with gaudy green blazers, cats named Nebuchadnezzar, bananas with s
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