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    100 More Great Indian Poems
    100 More Great Indian Poems
    100 More Great Indian Poems
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    100 More Great Indian Poems

    By Abhay K.

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    100 More Great Indian Poems serves as a perfect companion volume to 100 Great Indian Poems. Together they open a new window to the world of Indian poetry and delight our senses invoking a distinct taste, smell, colour and mood of this ancient and unique civilization.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateMar 10, 2019
    ISBN9789388038911
    100 More Great Indian Poems
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    Abhay K.

    Abhay K. (b.1980) is the author of a memoir and nine poetry collections including The Magic of Madagascar, The Alphabets of Latin America, The Eight-eyed Lord of Kathmandu and The Seduction of Delhi. He is the editor of CAPITALS, New Brazilian Poems, Great Indian Poems and The Bloomsbury Book of Great Indian Love Poems. His poems have been published in over 100 literary journals across the world including Poetry Salzburg Review. He received the SAARC Literary Award in 2013 and was invited to record his poems at the Library of Congress in Washington DC in 2018. His poem-song 'Earth Anthem' has been translated into over 120 global languages and is performed across the globe. www.abhayk.com

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      100 More Great Indian Poems - Abhay K.

      100

      MORE

      GREAT

      INDIAN

      POEMS

      Also by Abhay K.

      100 Great Indian Poems

      CAPITALS

      The Seduction of Delhi

      The Eight-eyed Lord of Kathmandu

      100

      MORE

      GREAT

      INDIAN

      POEMS

      Edited by

      Abhay K.

      BLOOMSBURY INDIA

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      First published 2019

      Concept, Anthology Selection and the Editor’s Note

      Copyright © Abhay K., 2019

      Abhay K. asserts the moral right to be identified as the editor of this work.

      Disclaimer: The editor’s views are his own. The views expressed by the contributors to this anthology are solely their own. The editor is not liable or responsible for their views.

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      CONTENTS

      Editor’s Note

      1. After the Curfew

      —Nida Fazli

      2. Again Snowfall

      —Jiban Namdung

      3. A Love Poem from India: Author’s Consent

      —Mahe Jabeen

      4. Alphabets

      —Nabaneeta Dev Sen

      5. A Marvel

      —Anon

      6. And Death Demands a Labor

      —Sumita Chakraborty

      7. A New Way of Waiting

      —Shakunt Mathur

      8. An Asian Child Enters a British Classroom 9

      —Debjani Chatterjee

      9. An Invitation

      —Vallana

      10. An Orange

      —Jibanananda Das

      11. Apparition on the River Bank

      —Bhojya Deva

      12. Ashtavakra Gita Ch-1

      — Bart Marshall

      13. Bardic Stuff

      —Manohar Shetty

      14. Beggar

      —Angshuman Kar

      15. Birthplace with Buried Stones

      —Meena Alexander

      16. Buddha on the Highway

      —Kalpatta Narayanan

      17. City of Memories

      —Sunil Gangopadhyay

      19. Daring

      —Padma Sachdev

      20. Day After Day

      —Annamaya

      21. Deception

      —Sampurna Chattarji

      22. Do Not Ask

      —H.S. Shivaprakash

      23. Dothead

      —Amit Majmudar

      24. Epitaph

      —Mohammad Alvi

      25. Exile

      —Ravi Shankar

      26. Eyes

      —Vasant Abaji Dahake

      27. Farewell

      —Jiban Narah

      28. Forest Ballads

      —Niranjan Chakma

      29. Frogs

      —Buddhadev Bose

      30. Girls on Rooftops

      —Alok Dhanwa

      31. God

      —Anuradha Mahapatra

      32. Here Comes God

      —Tenetti Suri

      33. History of Justice

      —Rohan Chhetri

      34. How Can a River Reject its Fish?

      —Janabai

      35. Ice Cubes, Cake & Roti

      —Souvik Bandopadhyay

      36. I have Brought the Sacrificial Goat

      —Joy Goswami

      37. Imaginary Number

      —Vijay Seshadri

      38. Incurable

      —Yaquin

      39. In the Dust Forever

      —Tarannum Riyaz

      40. In the Event of Change

      —Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

      41. I Wear My Wordlessness

      —K. Srilata

      42. Jaisalmer – IV

      —Gulammohamed Sheikh

      43. Let Loose the Stinging Bees

      —Kanji Patel

      44. Lineage

      —Attoor Raviverma

      45. Love is Everyday New and Fresh

      —Bulleh Shah

      46. Making Love to Her

      —Dharmakirti

      47. Meditations on Desire

      —Saleem Peeradina

      48. Momin

      —Kailash Vajpeyi

      49. Monsoon Poem

      —Tishani Doshi

      50. Mountain Child

      —Nirmala Putul

      51. My Eight-anna Coin

      —Vinod Kumar Shukla

      52. My Sister’s Bible

      —S. Joseph

      53. Need

      —Ramesh Chandra Shah

      54. Negro, My Brother

      —Ali Sardar Jafri

      55. Night’s Golden Wineglasses

      —Habba Khatoon

      56. No, I Am not Losing My Sleep

      —Pash

      57. Only a Connoisseur

      —Anon Baul

      58. Only One Face

      —Pankaj Chaturvedi

      59. Pigeons

      —Bibhu Padhi

      60. Portrait

      —Dinkar Manwar

      61. Prayer

      —Prabodh Parikh

      62. Rāghavapāṇḍavīya

      —Kaviarāja

      63. Rumi and the Reed

      —Tabish Khair

      64. Satyabhama

      —Basudev Sunani

      65. Shadow

      —Brij Nath Betab

      66. Silhouette

      —Adil Jussawala

      67. Sita’s Tears

      —Udayan Vajpeyi

      68. Son to Mother

      —Gnanakoothan

      69. Summer Afternoon

      —Vijay Deo Narayan Sahi

      70. Terms of Seeing

      —E. V. Ramakrishnan

      71. The Art of Courtesan

      —Anon

      72. The Battlefield

      —Kakkaipatiniyar Naccellaiyar

      73. The Corpse

      —J.P. Das

      74. The Cowherd’s Daughter

      —Rūpa Gosvāmin

      75. The Difference

      —Akhtar-ul-Iman

      76. The Evening

      —Garikapati Pavan Kumar

      77. The Glow-Worm’s Gleam

      —Narain Shyam

      78. The Insane

      —Vinda Karandikar

      79. The Need to Travel

      —Sohini Basak

      80. The New Man

      —Anon Baul

      81. The Orientalist

      —Ranjit Hoskote

      82. The Sleep

      —Shankha Ghosh

      83. The Way

      —Bodhidharma

      84. They Burnt My Father and Grandfather

      —K. Siva Reddy

      85. Thirst

      —Sahir Ludhianvi

      86. Things of Beauty

      —Amrita Nair

      87. This Helplessness

      —Shamsher Bahadur Singh

      88. Tibet

      —Uday Prakash

      89. Time

      —Kambadasan

      90. To Her Besties

      —Vidyá

      91. What Blue Is

      —Binoy Majumdar

      92. What Frenzy is this?

      —Zareef Ahmed Zareef

      93. When it Rains in Dharamshala

      —Tenzin Tsundue

      94. While I Slept

      —Navtej Bharati

      95. Whirlwind

      —Ravji Patel

      96. Why Marry?

      —Vemana

      97. Winter

      —Bijoy Sankar Barman

      98. You are That

      Selection from Chhandogya Upanishad

      99. Your Thoughts

      —Raghuvir Sahay

      100. Your Trust

      —Om Nagar

      Acknowledgements

      Permissions Acknowledgments

      Poets

      Translators

      Poets Index

      EDITOR’S NOTE

      India has a plethora of languages and each language is endowed with great poems waiting to be discovered, read,

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