APURVA, ALOUKIK, EKMEV

YASHODHARA KATKAR HAS EMERGED AS A PROLIFIC WRITER IN THE POST-MODERNIST ERA OF MARATHI LITERATURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY .WITH A M.A. FROM UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI AND PG DIPLOMA IN TOURISM MANAGEMENT, SHE MADE IT HER MISSION TO MENTOR STUDENTS THROUGH VOCATIONAL EDUCATION-TRAINING STREAM TO SET THEM ON CAREER PATHS IN TRAVEL, HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM INDUSTRY. WITH AN EYE FOR CONTEMPORARY ISSUES ,SHE CHOOSES TO WRITE ABOUT HUMAN STRUGGLES ,RELATIONSHIPS AND MOODS IN CURRENT TIMES .HER DIVERSE LITERARY WORKS INCLUDE A COLLECTION OF AUTIBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS ‘BANJARYACHE GHAR’ , PORTRAITS OF EMINENT PERSONALITIES CLOSE TO HER ‘ APOORVA ,ALAUKIK ,EKMEV’ , A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ‘THIRD PERSON ‘ , ‘SWAYAM SHIKSHIT ,SWAYAM PRAKASHIT ‘ FOCUSSING ON RURAL WOMEN OF MARATHWADA AND ‘MOOLMANTRA CAREERECHA ‘ , OUTLINING VOCATIONAL/CAREER GUIDANCE FOR SCHOOL DROP-OUTS AND SSC /HSC STUDENTS . A VORACIOUS READER AND FILM BUFF, SHE CONTRIBUTES BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS AND IS CURRENTLY CONTRIBUTING ‘MANASKANYA BIMALDANCHYA ‘, FOR A LEADING MARATHI DAILY, BASED ON THE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN THE FILMS MADE BY THE LEGENDARY PRODUCER –DIRECTOR, BIMAL ROY. A NOVEL FOCUSING ON THE UPS AND DOWNS IN THE INDIAN ART WORLD IS ALSO IN PROCESS. YASHODHARA IS THE RECIPIENT OF ‘SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ‘ BY CCRT ,MINISTRY OF CULTURE ,GOVT OF INDIA ,FOR 2017-19. SHE CHOSE THE TOPIC, ‘A STUDY OF MARATHI ‘NAVKATHA’ AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHOR ARVIND GOKHALE TO IT ’ , TO HIGHLIGHT THE HUGE CONTRIBUTION MADE BY GOKHALE AND CORRECT THE PERSPECTIVE ABOUT HIS RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE . AMONG THE AWARDS AND ACCOLADES RECEIVED , ‘SWAMIKAAR RANJIT DESAI PURSKAR’ , ‘RAMSHETH THAKUR PURSKAR FOR THE BEST SHORT STORY WRITER OF THE YEAR ’ AND THE PRESTIGIOUS ‘BHAIRURATAN DAMANI PURASKAR’ ARE THE CLOSEST TO HER HEART .