Personal Life
Nagarkar comes from a lower middle class family. Because his parents belonged to a branch of Brahmoism, which in Maharashtra was called the Prarthana Samaj, he could be said to have a hybrid background. A Westward-looking attitude towards Hinduism runs in his family; his grandfather attended the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago.
From June to November 2011 he was «writer in residence» of the Literaturhaus Zurich and the PWG Foundation in Zurich. A short essay on his stay in Zurich is available on the project website.
Nagarkar studied at Fergusson College in Pune and the S.I.E.S. College in Mumbai.
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