Five Marathi Authors Transforming Indian Literature for a New Generation of Global Readers
Beyond the glamour of Bollywood and the noise of mainstream Indian entertainment, a quiet literary revolution is unfolding in the Marathi language. Five contemporary authors are producing work of extraordinary ambition — fiction, memoir, and poetry that speaks to the Indian diaspora in the United States with an honesty and specificity that commercial culture rarely achieves. Here, we profile each of these remarkable voices.