Kosla Marathi
Pandhurang Sangvekar arrives in Pune from a small village in Khandesh to pursue his studies, embodying the aspirations and anxieties of his generation. As he navigates the corridors of academia, he confronts the pretence of his peers, the casual cruelty of hostel life, and the hollow pontificating of teachers, writers and public speakers. Each encounter chips away at his youthful idealism. Through moments of seriousness, frustration and cutting irony, Nemade sketches a portrait of a young man adrift, wrestling with contradictions at every turn. Pandhurang grapples with profound questions about marriage, family duty, education and faith, refusing easy answers or convenient platitudes. His observations accumulate into something bleaker: a creeping sense that meaning itself might be elusive, perhaps illusory. What emerges is a portrait of alienation and disappointment rendered with extraordinary linguistic precision. The novel's singular power lies in its unflinching examination of social hypocrisy and existential uncertainty. Even decades after publication, it remains startlingly distinctive, its language dense with significance and its vision uncompromising.
- Author: Bhalchandra Nemade
- Publisher: Popular Prakashan
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- ISBN: 978-8171854950
- Pages: 334 pages