Poem: Betwixt Remembrance And Fragrance By Kumar Vikal outlookindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from outlookindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
What a treasure house it was, the Department of Hindi, Centre for Indian Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Namvar Singh taught along with Manager Pandey, side by side with celebrated Hindi poet Kedar Nath Singh and the best Hindi researcher at the moment, Veer Bharat Talwar! Both Namvar Singh
I can clearly remember where I was on May 27, 1964, the day Nehru died: in my aunt’s charming cottage in Mukteshwar, up in Kumaon. Delhi then seemed very far away to us small towners and there w
‘Manglesh Dabral was not free of his past’
Manglesh Dabral hailed from Kafalpaani village in Tehri Garhwal. No wonder, mountains have a larger-than-life presence in his poems, which talk about local legends, mother, father, grandfather, rains and dreams. Doms also live in the mountains but they never drift into his poetry. How could they have? He had no connection with them. Kanwal Bharti re-reads Manglesh Dabral
Those other than Dalit poets also figure in my personal collection of anthologies, and I find their work quite impressive. They include Pash, Gadar, Gorakh Pande, Varavara Rao, Gauhar Raza, Bhagwat Rawat, Alok Dhanwa and Anshu Malviya. Their expressions are distinct from the others. I have more than 100 collections of poems of four-dozen-odd such poets. Some of them are famous names such as Ashok Vajpayee, Kedarnath Singh, Arun Kamal, Kumar Vikal and Ritu Raj. But I am not adequately intellectually equipped to understand their poetry. Manglesh Dabral’s collection of
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