Sachin Pradip Khare came second at the Wingword Poetry Competition 2025 under the Regional Category, for his poem, आत्ताची पिढी, and was awarded a cash prize of INR 15,000. So we decided to interview him to get to know his vision better.
नमस्कार, माझं नाव सचिन प्रदिप खरे, तसा नोकरीतच गुंतलेला पण त्याचबरोबर छोट्या छोट्या कविता लिहिणे, ब्लॉग्स लिहिणे, निसर्गात फिरणे, गिर्यारोहण करणे आणि त्यांचे यूट्यूब व्हिडिओ ब्लॉग करणे, F1 शर्यत बघणे असे इतर छंद जोपासणारा मी. खूप वेळा मनात अनेक गोष्टी येतात, ज्या समोर घडतात त्यामुळे अथवा कुठल्यातरी कारणांनी मनात होणारी शाब्दिक चकमक कागदावर उतरवायला आवडणारा असा मी......
Sachin Pradip Khare is an IT Program Manager, an avid F1 follower, and a quick scribbler of what comes to his mind. His creations come in the form of poems, blogs, etc. He prefers expressing his emotions in his mother tongue because it gives him a strong sense of connection with his roots and a refined way of expressing. He currently resides and works in Pune.
You have said that your mind expresses itself most efficiently in Marathi, your mother tongue. Do you think language carries not just expression but also memory, emotion, and identity? What do you lose (or perhaps gain) when you choose to write in English instead?
I definitely don't discriminate against any language. The point which I want to make, and most people would agree to, is that when you are born, the first word that you hear, even though you don't understand, is from your mother’s tongue. So, the connection to the mother develops even before you are exposed to the world. The mother tongue carries more meaning, expressions, emotions, and identity of the person. English or any other language can render the meaning, but can't recreate the expression.What you lose is the punch, the real meaning. At times, you lose specifics from culture. The cultural meaning of the words can't be expressed in any other word. You may lose the rhythm of the expression, and if you lose it, any poem or song doesn't convey the right meaning. Of course, English connects you globally, so this becomes an advantage, but if you want to convey the right meaning and expressions, then I would prefer my mother tongue
In your Marathi bio, you describe how “verbal skirmishes” in your mind, triggered by small everyday encounters, often end up on the page. Do you believe poetry is less about grand subjects and more about capturing these fleeting, almost invisible sparks of life?Writing a poem can be an impromptu act and/or your deep thoughts, your deep connection, your deep desire resonating with what you feel.
A poem doesn't need large themes, but it needs spark; one thought in your mind can be a catalyst for penning it down the moment. According to me, this seldom happens that on one particular subject you are thinking for almost a year and then writing the poem. One classic example I can share is that, while I was driving on a national highway, I started constructing the expression of anger in words in the form of poetry about how reckless people drive, how stupid they are when they talk on mobiles while they are driving on the NH. So, it really doesn't need big, big subjects. You should pen down what you feel inside because these are your honest thoughts. Such incidents narrate more expressions, feelings. I read somewhere that grand subjects often come from small lenses. The "verbal skirmishes" I mentioned, which can be internal reactions to everyday encounters, are the raw material from which such poetry is crafted. They are the initial spark that a poet then shapes and refines into a complete work.
Marathi literature has a rich tradition of saints, poets, reformers, and modern experimentalists. Where do you see your own voice within this landscape? Do you write with a sense of continuing that tradition, or as an individual carving a personal space?Every literature does have deep inspirations, thoughts, dialects, expressions, nouns, verbs, etc, and so does Marathi Literature. The great saint, Ramdas Swami, has expressed multiple subjects with deep meaning. In ancient times, when he wrote Dasbodh, he gave pointers with deep thoughts on how writing should be, what quality of the pen and paper should be. All such things are inspirational. Great saints like Dnyaneshwar, Tukaram, Ramdas Swami, and many more have laid the foundation through their own literature; one needs to build oneself on this. Of course, it can be a fusion of old literature and modern thoughts that spice up your own identity. With this foundation, one should bring the creativity that is easy to understand, easy to resonate with your life. This itself is creating your own space, with your own creativity, but of course, not losing the foundation that you have.
What drives you to participate in competitions? What kind of experience do you think one receives when sending their work for evaluation? Does the recognition, somehow, motivate you to write?What drives me to participate in competition is 1. Getting out of the mundane 2. Getting out of the comfort zone 3. Validation of your own work 4. To build self-confidence 5. Understand how other things and their creativity turned out to be
Of course, recognitions help to boost morale, and it gives you the push to do more creative work.
Keep writing & entertaining & enlightening us by thoughtful poems & blogs. The world needs good & thoughtful and energetic people like you. Go Sachin go ……best wishes 💐
The third line “जरा थांबा” is apt. I loved it.
Very happy for Sachin who pursues his passion…
Your writing is much readable and connetable which we all love for sure … Keep writing and blogging such good things and keep sharing your thoughts with everyone with such a good poems.
Once again Congratulations…!!
खूपच छान लिहिता तुम्ही 👏👍 proud of you
Fantastic, in deep, u have answered.
Keep writing.
Your writing is natural & going strait to the subjects. I liked it. Keep writing 👍
Congratulations and keep writing.