The only Diwali issue of Marathi magazine I read (thumb through really) is Lalit (ललित) and that too because I subscribe to it.
Not that I am against Diwali numbers but I am too lazy to join a circulating library and I don't feel like buying any of them because I rather buy a Marathi / English book instead.
On the afternoon of November 12 2013, I received my copy of Lalit dated November 2013 and realised that it indeed was not carrying Vasant Sarwate (वसंत सरवटे) drawn cover, for the first time after Diwali 1964.
It was just a confirmation because Sarwate himself had informed me this on November 8 2013 on phone.
I did not know that 'ललित', as an adjective in Hindi, translates as pictorial (चित्रमय). Lalit magazine indeed was 'pictorial' because it proudly carried Sarwate on its cover at least once a year.
If you wish to enjoy a few of the past covers done by Sarwate, please visit the given links.
2012: Lalit, 2012
2011: Lalit, 2011
2010: Lalit, 2010
2009: Lalit, 2009
2008: Lalit, 2008
2007: Lalit, 2007
This is the first Lalit Diwali cover Sarwate drew in 1964. I was four, my brother was two and my sister was in my mother's womb!
The small plant he started watering is still alive. It's a fantastic news in a brutal world of Marathi periodicals because many of Lalit's sisters who were around then have perished.
This is the first Lalit Diwali cover Sarwate drew in 1964. I was four, my brother was two and my sister was in my mother's womb!
The small plant he started watering is still alive. It's a fantastic news in a brutal world of Marathi periodicals because many of Lalit's sisters who were around then have perished.
प्रिय अनिरुद्ध,
ReplyDeleteसप्रेम नमस्कार
आजच्या आपल्या लेखातील विचार माझ्या मनातीलच आहेत असे वाटून गेले. मी ललितचा आजीव वर्गणीदार आहे. गेल्या काही वर्षांचे ललित चे अंक माझ्या संग्रहात आहेत. पण मलासुद्धा यंदा ललितचा दिवाळी अंक मिळाल्यावर चुकल्या चुकल्यासारखे वाटले. कै.केशवराव कोठावळे आणि कै.जयवंत दळवी हे ललितचे दोन आधारस्तंभ कालवश झाल्यानंतरही ललितने आपल्या दिवाळी अंकाच्या मुखपृष्ठाची परंपरा टिकवली होती.
मंगेश नाबर
Thanks Mangesh.
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best,
I wish to know what was the reaction of Shri. Vasantrao Saravate on this year's Lalit's Diwali Ank cover. He could have created a suiatable one on this series of Lalit's. Regards.
ReplyDeleteMangesh Nabar
There was no reaction as such...he just informed...he told me that he had one ready and now he would use it elsewhere.
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