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“Now I’m a real Mumbai-Wallah!” An interview with Hemant Divate

ABSTRACT In this interview – which was conducted in person on two leisurely afternoons in Bombay/Mumbai in March and September 2015, and which continued over email for many months afterwards – Emma Bird asks Marathi poet, publisher and translator Hemant Divate about his life and career, and about the multiple cultural and linguistic worlds he inhabits. In what follows, Divate considers how his own writing has developed, often in response to the demands of globalization and the rapid urbanization of everyday life; he situates himself in a Marathi poetry tradition, reflecting on his relationship with an older generation – in particular the late Marathi/English poets Dilip Chitre and Arun Kolatkar; he discusses the role of the little magazine in shaping contemporary poetry; and talks about the material context of writing, publishing and distributing poetry in India.