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Kali (poem)
"Kali" is a popular award-winning poem by the eminent Indian writer, linguist and literary critic Rukmini Bhaya Nair. The poem won First Prize in the Second All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1990. The poem has been widely cited and anthologised in reputed journals and scholarly volumes on contemporary Indian poetry. Excerpts from the poem :A goddess chews on myth :As other women might on paan :Red juices stain her mouth. :Bored by her own powers :Immense and spectral, Kali broods :About Shiva, she is perverse. :She will not plead with him :Nor reveal Ganesha’s birth :She will not ask him home. :Shiva loves her, but absences :And apsaras are natural to him :No god is hampered by his sins. ::: ***** :Loneliness drives this goddess mad :She is vagrant, her limbs askew :She begs a mate, her hair unmade. :Fickle as Shiva, memory deserts her :Chandi or Durga or Parvati, which :Is she, which of her selves weeps here? :Even Ganesha, for whom sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Rukmini Bhaya Nair is a linguist, poet, writer and critic of India. She won the First Prize for her poem ''kali'' in the "All India Poetry Competition" in 1990 organised by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with British Council. She is currently a professor at Humanities and Social Sciences department of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi). Nair is known for being a trenchant critic of the Hindutva ideology and the religious and caste discrimination that it promotes. Biography Rukmini Bhaya Nair is Professor of Linguistics and English at of Humanities and Social Sciences department of IIT, Delhi. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1982 and is internationally recognised for her work in the areas of linguistics, cognition and literary theory. In 2006, Nair received a second honoris causa doctoral degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Nair was Visiting Professor at the Department of English, Stanford University, in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Poetry Society (India)
The Poetry Society (India) was formed in July 1984 at New Delhi as a voluntary association to promote Indian poetry and to look after the interests of Indian Poets. The founding members included the Indian poets Keshav Malik, J P Das, H K Kaul and Lakshmi Kannan. The Society conducts seminars, creative writing workshops, reading and publication of poetry journal and anthologies. It also conducts All India Poetry Competitions, including competitions among school children. The Journal of the Poetry Society The Poetry Society also publishes a half yearly ''Poetry Journal''. It was started in 1990 and it publishes the best of Indian poetry written in English, including those translated from Indian languages. The journal also publishes book reviews and literary criticism. The society has been conducting all Indian poetry competition among school children. All India Poetry Competition SInce 1988, The Poetry Society (India) has been conducting All India Poetry Competitions in collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian English Poetry
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Indian Poems
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1990 Poems
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Works Originally Published In Indian Magazines
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