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Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Rabindranath Tagore , Sri Aurobindo , Sarojini Naidu , Michael Madhusudan Dutt , and Toru Dutt , among others.
Though the poem as a whole is largely comprehensible to native Hindustani speakers in the modern-day, some words are considered archaic today, such as dakh (داکھ, दाख, grape, from the Sanskrit द्राक्ष, draksh) which has been completely replaced by the Persian-derived term angoor in modern Hindi.
Anamika (born 17 August 1961) is a contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist [1] writing in Hindi, and a critic writing in English. My Typewriter Is My Piano is her collection of poems translated into English. [2] She is known for her feminist poetry. [2]
The poem is one of the most recited and sung poems in Hindi literature. An emotionally charged description of the life of the queen of Jhansi(British India) and her participation in the 1857 revolution, it is often taught in schools in India. [4] [12] A couplet repeated at the end of each stanza reads thus:
[1] [2] [3] This literary genre encompasses various Indian languages such as Marathi, Bangla, Hindi, [4] Kannada, Punjabi, [5] Sindhi, Odia and Tamil and includes narrative-styles like poems, short stories, and autobiographies. The movement started gaining influence during the mid-twentieth-century in independent India and has since spread ...
Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. [2] He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.
The publication of the work in 1935 brought Harivanshrai Bachchan instant fame, and his own recitation of the poems became a "craze" at poetry symposiums. [ 2 ] Madhushala was part of his trilogy inspired by Omar Khayyam 's Rubaiyat , which he had earlier translated into Hindi.
Gopal Singh Nepali (1911–1963), poet of Hindi literature and lyricist of Bollywood; Gopaldas Neeraj (1924– ), poet and author; Gulab Khandelwal (1924– ), poetry including some in Urdu and English; Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907–2003), poet of Chhayavaad literary movement (romantic upsurge) Hemant Shesh (1952– ), writer, poet and civil ...