Madhav Borkar

Madhav Borkar (also Borcar, in Konkani) is an Indian Konkani poet, former station director of All India Radio and Konkani litterateur.

Work, life Borkar was earlier station director of All India Radio, Panaji (Panjim). As a broadcaster, he has also worked in the government-run radio stations at Mumbai, Mangalore and Kolhapur.

In 2015, Borkar replaced Pundalik Naik as the president of the Goa Konkani Akademi. In March 2018, he completed 50 years in poetry, and has published eight volumes of verse. He is married to Mankarnika and they have two children, daughter Yogini and son Chinmay. Vatacheo Savalleo (The Shadows of Sunlight, 1972), Uzvadacho Rookh (The Tree of Light, 1975), Parjallachem Daar (The Door to Brightness, 1986) Yaman (Yaman, 1999), Avyaktaachim Gaannim (Songs of the Unexpressed, 2002) Symphony (Symphony, 2012)

Critical response Nandkumar Kamat describes Borkar as being part of the "second generation" of post-(Indian) Independence Konkani poets along with Nagesh Karmali, Shankar Parulkar, Pundalik Naik, Ramesh Veluskar, C. F. D'Costa, Olivinho Gomes, Suresh Borkar, Jess Fernandes, Prakash Padgaonkar, Kashinath Shamba Lolienkar and Ramkrishna Zuarkar. In Kamat's listing, he names B. B. Borkar, Manoharrai Sardessai, Abhijit and R.V. Pandit as the post-Independence poets in Konkani who "made major contributions whereas Pandurang Bhangi, Shankar Ramani, Shankar Bhandari and Vijaya Sarmalkar began to publish their poems."

Manohar Rai Sardesai calls his work "terse, abstract yet appealing".