Indira Sant


Indira Sant 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. 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 teacher's training college in Belgaum.
Semi-autobiographical articles by Sant were published in 1986 in a book titled Mrudgandha. The book Phulwel contains a collection of her essays.
Ramesh Tendulkar published in 1982 a compilation titled Mrunmayi of Sant's selected poetry.
Her poems have been translated into English as "Snake-skin and other poems of Indira Sant".

Major works

;Poems
Besides receiving in 1984 the Sahitya Akademi Award for her collection of poems Garbhareshami, Sant received for her poetry: