death_date death_place religion birth_place citizenship awards nationality ethnicity name birth_date known_for spouse article_title education birth_name occupation alma_mater
20 march 1956 delhi , india hindu faizpur , india india sahitya akademi award indian indian bal seetaram mardhekar 01 december 1909 introducing modernism in marathi homai nulliseth , anjana mardhekar b. s. mardhekar
 b.a. english language and literature bal poet writer , critic , dramatist , novelist , short-story university of mumbai
b. s. mardhekar

bal sitaram mardhekar -lrb- 1909-1956 -rrb- was a marathi writer who brought about a radical shift of sensibility in marathi poetry .
he was born in a town called faizpur in the khandesh region of maharashtra .
he was educated in pune and london , and worked at all india radio until his death .
his earlier collection of poems , `` shishiragam '' -lrb- शिशिरागम -rrb- , was a product of `` ravi kiran mandal '' poetry : sentimental and lyrical .
but his later avant-garde poetry brought about a storm in marathi literary world .
his poem with the title '' पिपात मेले ओल्या उंदिर '' -lrb- mice died in the wet barrel -rrb- appeared in `` abhiruchi '' -lrb- अभिरुची -rrb- magazine in 1946 .
similar to what baudelaire did in french poetry , mardhekar brought decadent urban ethos in marathi poetry .
marathi `` bhakti '' -lrb- भक्ति -rrb- poetry and the poetry of t. s. eliot and w. h. auden had an influence on him .
in 1948 , he was charged and tried for obscenity for some of his poems in ' kahi kavita ' .
he was declared innocent of these charges in 1952 .
mardhekar was also an influential crictic and an experimental novelist .
he attempted to bring in the consciousness technique in marathi novels .
he received in 1956 `` sahitya akademi award '' for his work `` saundarya ani sahitya -lrb- a study of aesthetics -rrb- '' -lrb- सौंदर्य आणि साहित्य -rrb- .
