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|name = Madhav Borkar (also Borcar, or Veni Madhav Borkar)
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|birth_name = Madhav Borkar (Borcar)
|birth_date = June 4, 1954<ref name="Sahitya">{{Cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/library/meettheauthor/madhav_borcar.pdf|title=Meet the Author: Madhav Borcar|website=Sahitya Akademi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703221031/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/library/meettheauthor/madhav_borcar.pdf#|archive-date=2018-07-03|url-status=live|access-date=July 3, 2018}}</ref>
|birth_place = [[Goa]], [[Portuguese India]]
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| alma_mater = [[People's High School]]
|genre = Poet
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'''Madhav Borkar''' (also Borcar, in Konkani वेणी माधव बोरकर) is a noted [[Konkani]] poet, former station director of [[All India Radio]] and Konkani litterateur based in [[Goa]], [[India]].

==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 Narayan Naik]] as the president of the [[Goa Konkani Akademi]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Veteran-Konkani-poet-Madhav-Borkar-took-charge-of-office-as-the-president-of-Goa-Konkani-Akademi-in-Panaji-on-Monday-/articleshow/47591872.cms|title=Veteran Konkani poet Madhav Borkar took charge of office as the president of Goa Konkani Akademi in Panaji on Monday.  - Times of India|work=The Times of India|access-date=2018-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703031648/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Veteran-Konkani-poet-Madhav-Borkar-took-charge-of-office-as-the-president-of-Goa-Konkani-Akademi-in-Panaji-on-Monday-/articleshow/47591872.cms#|archive-date=2018-07-03|url-status=live}}</ref> In March 2018, he completed 50 years in poetry, and has published eight volumes of verse.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.goa365.tv/balcao/balcao-madhav-borkar-celebrates-50-years-of-his-poetry/program/00083.html|title=GOA365 VIDEO: Balcao - Madhav Borkar Celebrates 50 Years of his Poetry|work=Goa365|access-date=2018-06-21|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621143845/https://www.goa365.tv/balcao/balcao-madhav-borkar-celebrates-50-years-of-his-poetry/program/00083.html#|archive-date=2018-06-21|url-status=live}}</ref>
He is married to Mankarnika and they have two children, daughter Yogini and son Chinmay.<ref name="Sahitya" />

==Literary output==
Borkar wrote poetry since 1968. His first collection was published while he was still a schoolboy. At the age of 15, his ''Chanvar'' got into print. He has six collections of poems and two translations -- ''Kabir'' by [[Prabhakar Machve]] and ''Ekshem Ek Kavita'' by [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref name="Sahitya" />

=== His poetic works ===
* ''Chanvar'' (The Bloom, 1969)<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://library.unigoa.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=62895&query_desc=au:Borkar,%20Madhav|title=Chanvar|last=Borkar|first=Madhav|year=1969}}</ref>
* ''Vatacheo Savalleo'' (The Shadows of Sunlight, 1972),
* ''Uzvadacho Rookh'' (The Tree of Light, 1975),<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://library.unigoa.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=65205&query_desc=au:Borkar,%20Madhav|title=Ujvadacho Rukh|last=Borkar|first=Madhav|date=1975|publisher=Sobit Sahitya|location=Goa}}</ref>
* ''Parjallachem Daar'' (The Door to Brightness, 1986)<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://library.unigoa.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=66201&query_desc=au:Borkar,%20Madhav|title=Parzallache Dar|last=Borkar|first=Madhav|date=1986|publisher=Parijat Prakashan|location=Mumbai}}</ref>
* ''Yaman'' (Yaman, 1999),<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://library.unigoa.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=77556&query_desc=au:Borkar,%20Madhav|title=Yamen|last=Borkar|first=Madhav|date=1999|publisher=Mankarnika Venimadhav Borkar|location=Goa}}</ref>
* ''Avyaktaachim Gaannim (Songs of the Unexpressed, 2002), ''
* ''and ''Symphony'' (Symphony, 2012).<ref name="Sahitya" /> ''
* Molabachem Zonel''.''

==Awards, etc.==
Earlier in his writing career, he received the Indian [[Sahitya Akademi]] award in 2001 for Yaman, a [[poetry]] collection.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Madhav-Borkar-appointed-GKA-president/articleshow/47548582.cms|title=Madhav Borkar appointed GKA president - Times of India|work=The Times of India|access-date=2018-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717010924/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Madhav-Borkar-appointed-GKA-president/articleshow/47548582.cms#|archive-date=2018-07-17|url-status=live}}</ref>

==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. (Chafra) da Costa]], [[Olivinho Gomes]], [[Suresh Borkar]], [[Jesse Fernandes]], [[Prakash Padgaonkar]], [[Kashinath Shamba Lolayenkar]] 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."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kamat|first=Nandkumar|date=2005-01-01|title=Post Independence Konkani poetry: a mini-review|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283475705|journal=Golden Jubilee Issue of National Sahitya Akademy|access-date=2018-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621143725/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283475705_Post_Independence_Konkani_poetry_a_mini-review#|archive-date=2018-06-21|url-status=live}}</ref>

Manohararāya Saradesāya (Manoharrai Sardesai) calls his work "terse, abstract yet appealing".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YILeUD_oZUC&q=madhav+borkar+konkani+poet&pg=PA136|title=A History of Konkani Literature: From 1500 to 1992|last=Saradesāya|first=Manohararāya|date=2000|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=9788172016647|language=en|access-date=2018-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621170700/https://books.google.co.in/books?id=1YILeUD_oZUC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=madhav+borkar+konkani+poet&source=bl&ots=Qu1slWaqDo&sig=MUGo7roy7ARPClv8NRPd-q632Sk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjtgeX5yeTbAhVBRZQKHZbKD404ChDoAQhPMAg#v=onepage&q=madhav%20borkar%20konkani%20poet&f=false#v=onepage&q=madhav%20borkar%20konkani%20poet&f=false|archive-date=2018-06-21|url-status=live}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Veteran-Konkani-poet-Madhav-Borkar-took-charge-of-office-as-the-president-of-Goa-Konkani-Akademi-in-Panaji-on-Monday-/articleshow/47591872.cms Veteran Konkani poet Madhav Borkar took charge of office as the president of Goa Konkani Akademi in Panaji on Monday]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeNXNTWrJZo Noted Konkani poet Madhav Borkar, on the work of Manohar Rai Sardessai and the new book] (in English)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZj1Ju2lNOE Goa Konkani Akademi President Madhav Borkar speaking during a book release (in Konkani)]
*[http://www.poetryindia.com/Poems.aspx?lang=Konkani#all One work on Poetry India]
*[http://johnaguiarspoetry.blogspot.com/2011/05/some-goan-konkani-poets.html Some Goan Konkani poets]
*[https://www.goa365.tv/balcao/balcao-madhav-borkar-celebrates-50-years-of-his-poetry/program/00083.html Balcao - Madhav Borkar Celebrates 50 Years of his Poetry]

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