The language of Nature is his uniqueness. How simplistically beautiful and creative yet loving is this narrative! Nature peeps in regularly in all his writings, especially his poems. The moon beam returns to her paternal house here and gold-silver droplets play in the front yard during the monsoon…’. Milk vats burst through every hill and dale there are heaps of mangoes and jackfruit. In this Goan land, there are honeyed coconuts. In describing Goa’s natural beauty he says: Nature became his language and the medium of his creation.
He was entranced with the beauty of nature. One can see the influence of great Marathi poets like Keshavsut, Balkavi, Govindaagraj on these poems, as also the deep influence of the religious atmosphere in his house, loving family, the culture that he imbibed during his childhood, and Goa’s picturesque nature. His first collection of poems Pratima was published in 1930 at the young age of twenty. Then from 1st November 1955 he was appointed as a Spoken Word Producer by Akashwani (All India Radio Network) at Pune (1955 – 1960), then at Panaji where he worked till his retirement in 1970. Lohia, he left for Bombay (today’s Mumbai) where he edited the Konkani periodicals Amacha Gomatak in 1948 and Porjecho Awaj in 1955. Soon after the Goa Liberation Movement started by Dr. With a Teachers Diploma, he landed a job as a Teacher in a Marathi Portuguese school and taught in various schools in Goa from 1930 to 1945. He could not pursue his education beyond matriculation due to paucity of funds. But when none could believe that he had created the Abhanga, he created yet another Abhanga extempore and sang it immediately. When his turn to sing came, he sang an Abhanga that he created extempore and as was the practice of Saint Poets, he ended his Abhanga with the verse Baaki Mhane (So says Baaki Baaki was his pet name, and was fondly called Baakibaab, baab = child). Once, Borkar forgot to learn a new Abhanga. There was a rule in his household that every child had to learn a new Abhanga by rote and sing it during the Bhajan session. All this culture moulded him from his childhood. The evenings too would ring with different forms of religious poems like Abhanga, Viranya, Goulani, Bharud and Bhajan, all sung in different tunes and melodies. The mornings began early with Bhupali, Stotra, religious songs and Aartis.
He lived in a joint family and the atmosphere in the house was very religious. Konkani was his mother tongue spoken in the household. He acquired a Portuguese Teachers Diploma certificate. He studied only up to 2nd grade in Marathi medium and completed his further education in Portuguese medium. Balkrishna Bhagwant Borkar (Bakibab Borkar or Bā Bha Borkar) (Hindi: बाळकृष्ण भगवन्त बोरकर), was an eminent Marathi and Konkani poet born in Curchorem village in Goa.
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