Mohanchand Patil

MOHANCHAND PATIL

Mohanchand Patil is a bilingual poet & writer in Kannada and English languages. He is well known modern poet in Karnataka state, India for his poems in Kannada and English.

Mohanchand Patil hails from Hubli, studied at Karnataka University, Dharwad. Now he is Head of Department – Finance and Accounts in Solaris ChemTech Industries Limited (a unit of New Delhi based Avantha Group of Thapars). He writes poems in Kannada and English and articles on economic topics which are published in leading Kannada magazines, A collection of his Kannada poems “Baagilugalu” was published by Dr Karki Sahitya Vedike, Hubli, which received good reviews from K V Tirumalesh, Yashwant Chittal and many others in literary circle. He started writing poems since college days when he came under the spell of Shelly, Keats, Shakespeare, D H Lawrence, Bertrand Russel and Sartre. The writings of Kuvempu, Bendre, Basavanna, Swamy Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore deeply influenced him.Famous frontline writers like Dr.Shantinath Desai, Yashwanth Chittal, Niranjan Walishettar, K V Tirumalesh and D S Parmaj encouraged his quest in literature.

He says poetry is an art which demands a highest order of discipline in life. He is of the opinion that whatever good things we learn or experience should be shared with others so that legacy of goodness and nobility should be passed on to the progeny for better life on earth.