Sundar V. Nadkarni
Sundar V. Nadkarni was a Kannada poet, writer and professor, who was awarded Karnataka Sahitya Akademi for the fiction 'Mandi Mane'. He was a younger brother of Mangesh V. Nadkarni.
Sundar V. Nadkarni was born and raised in Bankikkodla, a village in coastal India. Sundar earned his high school diploma from the A. H. School a school from his village. Nadkarni was a Professor of English in Arts and Science College, Anand, Gujarat. Later in the year 1985, he earned a Ph.D in English from the Department of English, Sardar Patel University. ""