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This is a translation from Marathi of an excerpt from Bhalchandra Nemade’s 1968 essay, “Halli lekhakacha lekhakarao hoto to ka?” [How does the writer become Mr Writer nowadays?] published in the little magazine, Vacha. It expressed the frustrated idealism of a generation of writers at the time and is referenced repeatedly today when the revolt of the sathottari generation in Marathi literature is discussed. Along with Ashok Shahane’s 1963 essay, “Ajakalachya Marathi vangmayavar ‘ksha’ kiran” [An X-ray of contemporary Marathi literature], and, later, Raja Dhale’s “Satyakathechi satyakatha” [The true story of Satyakatha], Nemade’s essay became pivotal in representing rebellious young writers’ outlook on the writer’s craft

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