| | Enfant terrible of Kannada literary world - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | He used strong and even intemperate language, took extreme positions, proposed outlandish examples - the Kannada literary establishment did to Dr Mokashi what all establishments do to dissidents - treated his views with amused disdain and branded him as an eccentric whose strong postures had to be tolerated as so many mischievous pranks. |
 | | Even now when the ‘enfant terrible’ has been laid to rest, his obituaries read like school reports on a mischievous child. |
 | | The truth is Dr Mokashi was the most original of our critics, a passionate post-colonial thinker, decades before the term became fashionable in the academic world; a writer who had the clarity of vision to see the dangers which threaten a regional literary culture in the context of the global hegemony of the West. |
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