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A Sky Full of Bucket Lists Review: Japanese Flavours, Local Cuisine
Shobhana Kumar’s book is a timely intervention to a growing subset of Indian poetry.
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Rabindranath Tagore recollected his first visit to Japan in 1916 in his book
Japan Jatri, where he first introduced the haiku into Bengali. Translating the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, Tagore wrote: “The heart of the Japanese people does not sound like a waterfall; it is quiet like a lake.” Since then, the haiku – and other Japanese forms such as haibun, tanka, and senryu – have become increasingly popular in Indian languages. In a 1992 article for ....

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