chandrakant khot /SHRIDHAR TILVE

WHO IS CHANDRAKANT KHOT? The answer is not an easy task.B S Mardhekar innovated pratisrushtiya adhuniktawadi kavita and rebelled against srushtiya adhunik kavita introduced by MAHATMA FULE AND KESHAVSUT.5 writers carried this legacy FURTHER with more acute touch of EXISTENTIALISM and SURREALISTIC IMAGINATION IN EXPRESSION. SADANAND REGE,VASANT DAHAKE,ANIRUDH KULKARNI,MEGHNAD KULKARNI AND CHANDRAKANT KHOT.REGE AND DAHAKE WERE PROFFESSORS . Naturally both have natural access to recognition but BOTH KULKARNIS and KHOT are out of sight in literature.Till date they aren't recognised. Khot wasn't only writer but genius kind of editor who changed the structure of presentation of Marathi literature forever. He was the one who changed the surface of DIWALI ANK providing visual polishness to it. His poetry was treat to imagination and difficulty to regularity .His journey from EXISTENTIALISM to SPIRITUALISM was obvious in Indian context. He was obsessed with imagination and sometime it becomes his weakness.Fetal destructiveness was in his thought and spiritualism was the only way left for him, His sensitivity was urban and margi, Naturally so called NATIVISM kept him at distance. They just couldn't afford him.Nobody knows is it blessing or curse. Prabably next generations will revalue his contribution without any bias,He lived like writer and died like writer. KADAK SALUTE TO HIS LIFESTYLE.