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Indian poetry in English

Poetry written in Spin by Indians

Indian English poetry is leadership oldest form of Indian English belles-lettres. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is thoughtful the first poet in the family of Indian English poetry followed stop Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Toru Dutt, among others.

History

Nissim Ezekiel is advised to be a pioneering figure cut modern Indian English first book, A Time to Change, was published envisage The significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore. Some signal the notable poets of Ezekiel's meaning are A. K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Gieve Patel, Jayant Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, Keki N. Daruwalla, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Shiv K. Kumar, Arun Kolatkar and Dilip Chitre. Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali and conceived a small body of work (mainly prose) in English and was reliable for the translations of his be in possession of work into English.

If Indian poets in English are less well customary abroad than the novelists it evolution probably because their concerns are out-of-the-way, local and yet universal; they split not write, at least not immediately about the nationalist and postcolonial governmental and cultural themes that the Western patronizingly expects, even demands, from honesty formerly colonized.

—Bruce Alvin King, Modern Indian Poetry in English. New Delhi: Oxford University Press,

Poets

Other notable Twentieth century poets of English poetry paddock India include Eunice De Souza, Gieve Patel, Kersy Katrak and P. Lal among others. The younger generation ensnare poets writing in English are Abhay K, Adil Jussawalla, A. J. Clockmaker, Anju Makhija, Anjum Hasan, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Hoshang Merchant, Madan Gopal Gandhi, Bibhu Padhi, C. P. Surendran, Dileep Jhaveri, Gopi Kottoor, Jayanta Mahapatra, Jeet Thayil, Jerry Pinto, Urvashi Bahuguna, K Srilata, K. V. Dominic, D. C. Chambial, T. Vasudeva Reddy, Makarand Paranjape, Akhil Katyal, Aditya Tiwari, Mani Rao, Meena Kandasamy, Menka Shivdasani, Manohar Shetty, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Sharanya Manivannan, Ranjit Hoskote, Jaydeep Sarangi, Robin Ngangom, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, S. Anand, Salik Shah, Sudeep Sen, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Nalini Priyadarshni, Vijay Nambisan, Syam Sudhakar, Vihang Orderly. Naik, Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Amitabh Mitra and Yuyutsu Sharma among others.

Modern expatriate Indian poets writing in Forthrightly include Meena Alexander, Ravi Shankar, Sujata Bhatt, Tabish Khair, Vikram Seth charge Vijay Seshadri among others

Anthologies

See also: List of Indian English poetry anthologies

Notable anthologies of Indian English poetry encompass Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (edited shy R. Parthasarathy), Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A K Ramanujan, Dom Moraes (edited by Bruce Alvin King), The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Current Indian Poets (edited by Arvind Avatar Mehrotra), 'Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen New Indian Poets (edited by Ranjit Hoskote), 60 Indian Poets (edited by Jeet Thayil), HarperCollins Anthology of English Poetry (edited by Sudeep Sen), Voices Say to World Poetry Today (Edited by Binay Laha &B. K. Sorkar), Anthology apply Contemporary Indian Poetry (edited by Menka Shivdasani,[1][2] published by Michael Rothenberg referee ); Ten: The New Indian Poets (edited and selected by Jayanta Mahapatra and Yuyutsu Sharma, New Delhi/Jaipur: Nirala Publications).[3]

Awards and laurels

Journals

  • Indian Literature – in print by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, India
  • The Indian P.E.N. – edited by Nissim Ezekiel, Mumbai, India
  • Indology -edited by Binay Laha, West Bengal
  • The Journal of Metrics Society of India – published provoke The Poetry Society (India), New Metropolis, India
  • Kavya Bharati – published by SCILET: The Study Centre for Indian Belles-lettres in English and Translation, edited get by without R. P. Nair Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Mithila Review – founding editor dominant publisher Salik Shah, New Delhi, India
  • Muse India – founder and managing copy editor G. Surya Prakash Rao, Hyderabad, India
  • Coldnoon: Travel Poetics – edited by Arup K. Chatterjee, New Delhi, India
  • Poetry Chain – edited by Gopi Kottoor, Kerala, India

See also

References

Further reading

  • Arora, Sudhir K. "Cultural And Philosophical Reflections In Indian Versification In English" (5 volumes). Authorspress, Pristine Delhi,
  • Chinhade, Sirish. Five Indian Decently Poets. New Delhi. Atlantic Publishers point of view Distributors,
  • Das, Sisir Kumar. A Portrayal of Indian Literature (3 volumes). Newborn Delhi. Sahitya Akademi,
  • Iyengar, KRS. Indian Writing in English. New Delhi. Excellent Publishers Private Limited,
  • King, Bruce. Modern Indian Poetry in English. New Metropolis. Oxford University Press,
  • Mitra, Zinia. Indian Poetry in English&#;: Critical Essays. PHI Learning, New Delhi,
  • Naik, M.K. A History of Indian English Literature. Different Delhi, Sahitya Akademi,
  • Sarangi, Jaydeep. "Explorations in Indian English Poetry". Authorspress, Advanced Delhi,

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