This document provides biographical information about the Indian poet Arun Kolatkar and summarizes some of his English poetry. It notes that Kolatkar was a bilingual poet from Maharashtra who worked as a graphic designer and won several advertising awards. His collection "Jejuri" from 1977 depicts a journey to a temple and explores themes of faith, tradition, and the divine through short fragments. The document examines and quotes from several poems, showing Kolatkar's skepticism while still engaging with religious traditions from a modern perspective.

1. Name: Hirani Khushboo A.
SEM_III
Indian English Literature
Topic: The Views on Faith, Realism and Scepticism in the
poem of ‘Arun Kolatkar’

2. Arun Balkrishna
Kolatkar
Born:1st November, 1932
Died:25th September, 2004
Specialty: Bio-lingual Poet
(Marathi & English)
- Poet from Maharashtra, India
-Trained as an Artist from the J.J.School of Art, -He was
also a noted graphic designer with many awards for his work.
- Started work as an art director and graphic designer in
several advertising agencies like “Lintas”
- Mid60s started working joined Mass Communication and
Marketing
- He won the prestigious CAG award for advertising six
times and was admitted to the CAG Hall of Fame.
- Marathi devotion poetry and popular theater
- ( Tamasha ) had early influences on Kolatkar
- Influence by William Carlos William

3. English Poetry
 Special Collection of 31 poem “Jejuri”
 Won the Commonwealth prize in 1977
 The book describe a journey to Jejuri a temple near Pune
 ‘Jejuri’ is an ancient centre of pilgrimage in Maharashtra
 Worship of Khandoba by Shepherd community in Maharashtra
 Discarding the Burden of tradition
 “Khandoba” a site for the local Deity also an incarnation of “Shiva”
 Series of often short fragment which describes the experience of a
secular visitor to the ruin of Jejuri

4. The Bus
“Your own divided face in the pain of Glasses
on an old man's nose
is all the country side you get to see”
“You seem to move continually forward toward a destination
Just beyond the caste mark beyond hi Eyebrows”
“You don’t step inside the old man’s head”
(Jejuri P.13)

5. Chaitanya
A heard of legends on a hill slope
Looked up from its grazing when Chaitanya came in sight.
the hills remained still when Chaitanya was passing by
A cowbell tinkled
When he disappeared from view
And the heard of legends
Retuned to its grazing.

6. A Scratch
“What is God
And what is stone
The dividing line
If it exists is very thin
At jejuri
And every other stone
Is god or his cousin”

7. Conclusion
- Arun Kolkatar's Jejuri provokes a debate in the context of religious
experience of a modern pilgrim. The presiding deity being the ‘Human
Eye’ It Transform the Phenomena it sees and interacts with it.
- As a Modernist, Kolatkar does not discard the traditions but prepares
for a new vision and creation and therefore makes us look at
“Modernism” in new perspective.

8. Bibliography
www.Wikipedia.com
www.inflibnet.com
Collection of poems