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Mumbai: ‘Every book is a milestone’
Updated On: 07 January, 2024 07:03 AM IST | Mumbai | Christalle Fernandes
Poetrywala, the Marathi publishing movement started by poet Hemant and Smruti Divate, turns 20 this year. mid-day catches up with them at Mumbai Poetry Festival to chat about the journey
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Poet Hemant Divate says Poetrywala, his publishing platform, has been a movement to cultivate an appreciation for Marathi and English poetry in India. Pics/Anurag Ahire
Poetry is my goddess and my religion,” says poet Hemant Divate, when we find him overseeing the proceedings at Mumbai Poetry Festival. The festival started on a poetic note, quite literally: the poet and his wife, Smruti, read out a poem of Tukaram from the book Says Tuka, in Marathi and English, respectively. “We prayed through Tukaram’s poem,” he reminisces. “I believe in poetry.”
The festival saw the attendance of literary stalwarts such as Jerry Pinto, Siddhartha Menon, and Mukta Sambrani, and was held to commemorate Poetrywala, Divate’s publishing platform, turning 20. Ask him what’s the biggest milestone over the past two decades, and he says, “Every book we published is a milestone.”
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