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Prachi Deshpande

How shorthand in Marathi made accurate writing possible in newspapers amid colonial surveillance

An excerpt from ‘Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India’, by Prachi Deshpande.

Prachi Deshpande
· May 05, 2023 · 11:30 am
The subversive genius of Marathi writer and rationalist Nanda Khare (1946-2022)

His anti-hero Maratha protagonist in ‘Antajichi Bakhar’ disrupted the patriotic trope, while in Udya, he imagined life in the not-so-distant dystopian future.

Prachi Deshpande
· Jul 31, 2022 · 08:30 am