The Imagination of the State

The Imagination of the State GPD WE forget the year, but it was quite some time ago that at the annual meeting of the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, Durga Bhagwat, the veteran litterateur of Marathi, and the late Y B Chavan crossed swords at Karad which happens to be the hometown of the latter. Ever since then, 'the state and literature' has been a popular topic of discussion in the land of the Marathas. There was a half-hearted demand that ministers should not attend these meetings. There was an even more feeble demand that the prizes that the government confers should be returned. The latter demand was never really supported