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I praise you, Motherland) is a poem written in Sanskritised Bengali [1] [2] by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s. [3] [4] The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress. [5] [6] [7] The poem was first published in 1882 as part of Chatterjee's Bengali novel Anandmath. [8]
The poem is widely anthologised in major Indian English poetry collections and is regarded as a pioneering classic in modern Indian English writing. [1] The poem is remarkable for its breathless tempo, vivid imagery and unsuppressed angst at societal decadence. The poem is addressed to the Indian city of Kolkata, although not in eulogical terms.
A Farmer's Ghost" is a popular English poem by the Indian poet and writer Anju Makhija. The poem won First Prize in the Fifth All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1994. [1] The poem has been widely cited and anthologised in reputed journals [2] and scholarly volumes on contemporary Indian poetry. [3]
Sitakant Mahapatra (born 17 September 1937) is an Indian poet [1] and literary critic in Odia as well as English. [2] [3] He served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1961 until he retired in 1995, and has held ex officio posts such as the Chairman of National Book Trust, New Delhi since then.
K. Srilata (also known as Srilata Krishnan) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and academic based in Chennai. [1] Her poem, In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick won the First Prize in the All India Poetry Competition (organized by the British Council and The Poetry Society (India)) in 1998. [2]
The Amaruśataka or Amarukaśataka (अमरुशतक, "the hundred stanzas of Amaru"), authored by Amaru (also Amaruka), is a collection of poems dated to about the 7th [1] or 8th century. [2] The Amaruśataka ranks as one of the finest lyrical poetry in the annals of Sanskrit literature, ranking with Kalidasa and Bhartṛhari 's ...
Mutyala Saralu (Telugu: ముత్యాల సరాలు) is a compilation of Telugu poems written by Gurajada Apparao in 1910. The compilation heralded the beginning of modern poetry in Telugu language. [1] The traditional meter is replaced by a new lyrical and four beat balladic rhythm.
The authors have different outlooks towards life in their poems mostly because of the variation in their living environment and their age differences. The name of the book simply compares the poetry to the dance of the peacock. Most of the authors are Indian diaspora in UK, US and Canada. The writers are a mix of male and female. [4] [5] [6] [7]