Muktibodh: Hope, Resistance and Dystopia

Abstract

These lines were so powerful that it inspired thousands, immediately igniting the spirit of new possibility. The full name of Muktibodh was Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh and he was a Marathi by birth. He was one of the most truste intellectual voices of our time who wrote poetry, literary criticism, stories and essays. The underlying concern of his writing was how to break the boundaries of middle class narrow-mindedness, pathetic self-absorption and also false utopian thinking.