Ramesh Veluskar

Ramesh Bhagvant Veluskar (10 November 1947 – 21 October 2018) was an Indian Konkani poet and litterateur. He died on 21 October 2018 at Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh.

Background

Veluskar was a school teacher for 33 years, and has taught Konkani, Marathi and Hindi. Veluskar has written poetry, essays, novellas, and dramas for children.

Veluskar had "25 odd books to his credit, including translations from languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi and English", and some of his recent books include Zen Kavita and Pandurang Pandurang (2014). According to Bharati Pawaskar, writing in The Goan, "Wordsmiths like Manoharrai Sardesai, Ravindra Kelekar, Bakibab Borkar, Madhav Borkar, Dharmanand Kamat, R. V. Pandit, S S Nadkarni, Muralidhar Kulkarni, Nagesh Karmali, Evágrio Jorge encouraged Veluskar to write."

His first collection of Konkani poems, Morpakham, was published in 1979. He won the Indian Sahitya Akademi award for his 1989 collection of poems, Saulgori. Veluskar bagged the Non-Hindi Hindi Writer Award of the Government of India's Ministry of Human Resource Development for his poetry collection Samudramudrika in 2011.