"Like any of the 'locals' in Mumbai, the teeming trains that barrel through the megapolis, Anjali Nerlekar’s
Bombay Modern leads us into the heart of bilingual literary culture in the Maximum City, through an underground world of poems, manifestos, little magazines, dreams, visions, modernisms, and experiments inhabiting the interstices of both English and Marathi.
Bombay Modern richly documents the lives, careers, ideas, and works of writers as diverse as Arun Kolatkar, Adil Jussawalla, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Dilip Chitre, Bhalchandra Nemade, R. K. Joshi, and Ashok Shahane, whose impact is far from local, and without whom the story of geomodernisms cannot now be conceived or told."—Vinay Dharwadker, Professor of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies and of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison
"...Bombay Modern expands the scholarship on global avant-garde and modernisms in South Asia providing valuable heuristic tools of analysis for multiple literary and historical contexts. This accurate monograph can be recommended not only as a complementary study to the reading of Kolatkar’s poetry in English, but also as an independent work per se that explores the intricate web of material practices of literature, poetic experimentation, protest and resistance in the decades following the independence of India." —Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Review