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Qene (Amharic: ቅኔ, romanized: qəne) is a genre of improvised oral poetry from Ethiopia. [1] The genre originates in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, which historically provided traditional religious education, including the composition of qene. [2] Its origins are supposed to date back to the 14th century. [3]
Although originally an oral tradition, the genre was incorporated into longer poems, epics and narratives by a number of Indian poets [8] across major Modern Indo-Aryan languages including—Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Rajasthani languages, Bihari languages, Punjabi etc., and can be found in the folk poetry of the tribal people too.
Keshavdas Mishra (Hindi pronunciation: [keːɕəvəd̪ɑːsə miɕrə]; 1555–1617), usually known by the mononym Keshavdas, was an Indian Poet, Writer, Scholar and administrator who was best known for his work Rasikpriya , a pioneering work of the Riti Kaal of Hindi literature. He was patronized by Vir Singh Deo of Orchha.
His Marathi poems of the 1950s and 1960s are written "in the Bombay argot of the migrant working classes and the underworld, part Hindi, part Marathi, which the Hindi film industry would make proper use of only decades later". [5] For instance, consider the following, which intersperses Hindi dialect into the Marathi:
Its content is different from the poetry anthologies in the first two volumes. It is an epic poem with a total of 21 chapters and 1,340 verses, titled "Manifestation of Love"; the illustrations in the book are by Rhiti Chatterjee Bose, [7] the female illustrator from Kolkata. The author tells the story of Krishna from birth to death in a new ...
Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1906 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature.She is considered one of the four major pillars [a] of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. [1]
Kaka Hathrasi [8] and his son Dr. Laxmi Narayan Garg made a Brij Bhasha-language feature film "Jamuna Kinare" (1983) which based on Braj culture. The film is made under the banner of "Kaka Hathrasi Films Production", produced, directed and music composed by Dr. Laxmi Narayan Garg [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and story was written by Ashok Chakradhar (Kaka ...
Surdas's poetry was written in a dialect of Hindi called Braj Bhasha, until then considered to be a very plebeian language, as the prevalent literary languages were either Persian or Sanskrit. His work raised the status of the Braj Bhasha from a crude language to that of a literary one.