MARATHI SAHITYA SAMMELAN GETS A BOLD NEW FACE
CAMIL PARKHE
Friday, October 01, 2010 AT 01:40 PM (IST)
Tags: ABMSS, Uttam Kamble, Sakal Media Group, Camil Parkhe
Uttam Kamble, chief editor of Sakal Media Group, who has been elected president of the 84th All India Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, has mooted the idea of having a corpus fund to help the needy littérateurs who may need financial support.
Kamble is one of the youngest littérateurs to be elected to the coveted post of the Marathi literary conference in recent times. For the past few decades, rarely has a person below 60 years of age been elected to preside over the Sahitya Sammelan, and the average age of the president of the literary conference has been 70 years.
The next Marathi Sahitya Sammelan will be held in Thane in December, this year.
Speaking to Sakal Times, Kamble said that many veteran Marathi writers and poets have died in penury and some of them could not even afford medicines during the last stage of their life.
Stressing the need for having a permanent fund to support these littérateurs, Kamble said industrialists, social organisations and others could contribute towards creating a corpus fund.
Kamble also said that he will welcome various streams of Marathi Sahitya Sammelans, including rural, Dalit and Vidrohi Sammelans into the mainstream All India Marathi Sahitya Sammelan. Representatives of various Sammelans should not view each other as enemies, and be complementary to each other, he said.
Sakal Media Group chairman Prataprao Pawar and Managing Director Abhijit Pawar congratulated Kamble on his election at a function held at the ‘Sakal’ office on Thursday afternoon, which was attended by heads of departments in Sakal Media Group.
ELECTED WITH OVERWHELMING VOTES
Kamble was elected with an overwhelming 411 first preferential votes. Chandrakumar Nalage won 101 votes while Girija Kir polled 95 votes. Wamanrao Pathak and Dnyaneshwar Kulkarni polled 10 and seven votes, respectively, while 18 votes were declared invalid.
Kamble has 39 literary works to his credit including two novels, three autobiographical books, two poetry collections and five research books. Some of his books have been translated into Hindi, Kannad, Telugu and Malayalam languages. Some of his writings have been included in the syllabus of some universities in the State.
CAMIL PARKHE
Friday, October 01, 2010 AT 01:40 PM (IST)
Tags: ABMSS, Uttam Kamble, Sakal Media Group, Camil Parkhe
Uttam Kamble, chief editor of Sakal Media Group, who has been elected president of the 84th All India Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, has mooted the idea of having a corpus fund to help the needy littérateurs who may need financial support.
Kamble is one of the youngest littérateurs to be elected to the coveted post of the Marathi literary conference in recent times. For the past few decades, rarely has a person below 60 years of age been elected to preside over the Sahitya Sammelan, and the average age of the president of the literary conference has been 70 years.
The next Marathi Sahitya Sammelan will be held in Thane in December, this year.
Speaking to Sakal Times, Kamble said that many veteran Marathi writers and poets have died in penury and some of them could not even afford medicines during the last stage of their life.
Stressing the need for having a permanent fund to support these littérateurs, Kamble said industrialists, social organisations and others could contribute towards creating a corpus fund.
Kamble also said that he will welcome various streams of Marathi Sahitya Sammelans, including rural, Dalit and Vidrohi Sammelans into the mainstream All India Marathi Sahitya Sammelan. Representatives of various Sammelans should not view each other as enemies, and be complementary to each other, he said.
Sakal Media Group chairman Prataprao Pawar and Managing Director Abhijit Pawar congratulated Kamble on his election at a function held at the ‘Sakal’ office on Thursday afternoon, which was attended by heads of departments in Sakal Media Group.
ELECTED WITH OVERWHELMING VOTES
Kamble was elected with an overwhelming 411 first preferential votes. Chandrakumar Nalage won 101 votes while Girija Kir polled 95 votes. Wamanrao Pathak and Dnyaneshwar Kulkarni polled 10 and seven votes, respectively, while 18 votes were declared invalid.
Kamble has 39 literary works to his credit including two novels, three autobiographical books, two poetry collections and five research books. Some of his books have been translated into Hindi, Kannad, Telugu and Malayalam languages. Some of his writings have been included in the syllabus of some universities in the State.
