Indira Sant
Indira Sant (; 4 January 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India. Life. Indira Sant was born on 4 January 1914 as Indira Dikshit in the small town Tavandi of Belgaum District, India, Karnataka. Indira studied at Rajaram College in Kolhapur, and Fergusson College in Pune where she met her future husband Narayan Sant. In 1940, four years after their marriage, the two published a joint collection of their poems titled "Sahawas" (सहवास). Indira's husband, Narayan Sant, died in 1946. The pain of loss of her husband found its expression in some of her  poems. The principal theme of most of her poetry is love and longing. The love of nature is also evident in her poems. Her poetry further pertains to different dimensions of a woman's life. Indira Sant wrote 25 books. She worked first as a professor and then as the principal in a teachers' training college in Belgaum. Semi-autobiographical articles by Sant were published in 1986 in a book titled "Mrudgandha" (मृद्गंध). The book "Phulwel" (फुलवेल) contains a collection of her essays. Ramesh Tendulkar published in 1982 a compilation titled "Mrunmayi" (मृण्मयी) of Sant's selected poetry. Her poems  have been translated into English as "Snake-skin and other poems of Indira Sant" (1975). Awards. Besides receiving in 1984 the Sahitya Akademi Award for her collection of poems "Garbhareshami" (गर्भरेशमी), Sant received for her poetry: