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February 5, 2026Open Access

'Sensitive Witnessing'

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APAranya Padil

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This analysis reveals how Kolatkar's sensitive poetry transforms urban landscapes and meanings of place.

Key Points

  • The paper aims to analyze Arun Kolatkar’s English poetry through the concept of sensitive witnessing.
  • Explores Kolatkar's poetry cycle, Kala Ghoda Poems, focusing on urban associations.
  • Applies Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the complete artist to frame analysis.
  • Integrates Bennett's theories of thing-power and vital materiality in the context of the city.
  • Situates Kolatkar's work within a post-humanist framework instead of modernism.
  • Identifies how Kolatkar's poetry embodies a poetics of placemaking in Bombay.
  • Shows the continuous evolution of urban landscapes through a more-than-human lens.
  • Suggests a political ecology of human and non-human interactions in literary contexts.
  • Raises critical questions about the role of poets as sensitive witnesses to urban environments.

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Aranya Padil (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/698434cff1d9ada3c1fb3597https://doi.org/10.58125/nidan.2025.2.28628
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