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French has been a South Asian language since the 17th century, when agents of the French East India Company and French travellers arrived in India. ....
Revisiting French Colonial Pondicherry Through Poems 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.
The inaugural edition of the Deepankar Khiwani Memorial Prize celebrated the power of poetry Poets are good actors,/ Good actors as they say are fresh,/ They are elses to the part they play/ So I play out this frowning poet’s role/ And you look at me tenderly. from Entr’acte by Deepankar Khiwani Deepankar Khiwani died at the age of 47 on March 28 last year. A fortnight before his death, Khiwani had shared his latest poems, where he describes art as “a dark condemned space with the door unlocked”, with Arundhathi Subramaniam. “I shall revisit those finely-wrought last poems, reminding myself that, for all the darkness and incarceration around us, somewhere there is an ‘unlocked’ door,” wrote Subramaniam two days after Khiwani’s death. ....
A Poet Interprets an Interpreter s Diary This weekend s Verse Affairs is a review of Arjun Rajendran s new collection of poetry, that takes off from a meticulously kept 18th century diary. Ananda Ranga Pillai, the 18th century interpreter. Photo: Public domain In a diary entry on November 30, 1745, Ananda Ranga Pillai notes: “This day, there was an event worthy of record. In the village⦠a church has been constructed by Kanakaraya Mudali⦠In honour of this, he invited, without distinction, all the Brahmans, Vellazhas, Komuttis, Chettis, goldsmiths, weavers, oil-mongers, and people of other castes; and all Europeans and Christians, and entertained them with a feast⦠Meals for Europeans were prepared at Pondichery [ ....