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The Dance Of The Peacock
''The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'' is a 2013 anthology of poems written by one hundred and fifty-one poets; edited by Dr Vivekanand Jha. The one hundred and fifty-one poets include Indians and diasporic Indians.The book was published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada. Synopsis The authors have different outlooks towards life in their poems mostly because of the variation in their living environment and their age differences. The name of the book simply compares the poetry to the dance of the peacock. Most of the authors are Indian diaspora in UK, US and Canada. The writers are a mix of male and female. Contributors A. J. Thomas, Abhay K, Aftab Yusuf Shaikh, Aju Mukhopadhyay, Akhil Katyal, Akshat Sharma, Allabhya Ghosh, Amalan Stanley V, Amarendra Khatua, Amarendra Kumar, Ambika Ananth, Ami Kaye, Amol Redij, Ananya S Guha, Anita Nair, Anju Makhija, Anna Sujatha Mathai, Aparna Kaji Shah, Arbind Kumar Choudhary, Archna Sahni, Arman Najmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dance Of The Peacock
''The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'' is a 2013 anthology of poems written by one hundred and fifty-one poets; edited by Dr Vivekanand Jha. The one hundred and fifty-one poets include Indians and diasporic Indians.The book was published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada. Synopsis The authors have different outlooks towards life in their poems mostly because of the variation in their living environment and their age differences. The name of the book simply compares the poetry to the dance of the peacock. Most of the authors are Indian diaspora in UK, US and Canada. The writers are a mix of male and female. Contributors A. J. Thomas, Abhay K, Aftab Yusuf Shaikh, Aju Mukhopadhyay, Akhil Katyal, Akshat Sharma, Allabhya Ghosh, Amalan Stanley V, Amarendra Khatua, Amarendra Kumar, Ambika Ananth, Ami Kaye, Amol Redij, Ananya S Guha, Anita Nair, Anju Makhija, Anna Sujatha Mathai, Aparna Kaji Shah, Arbind Kumar Choudhary, Archna Sahni, Arman Najmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malay Roy Choudhury
Malay Roy Choudhury (born 29 October 1939) is an Indian Bengali poet, playwright, short story writer, essayist and novelist who founded the Hungryalist movement in the 1960s. Early life and education Malay Roy Choudhury was born in Patna, Bihar, India, into the Sabarna Roy Choudhury clan, which owned the villages that became Kolkata. He grew up in Patna's Imlitala ghetto, which was mainly inhabited by Dalit Hindus and Shia Muslims. His was the only Bengali family. His father, Ranjit (1909–1991) was a photographer in Patna; his mother, Amita (1916–1982), was from a progressive family of the 19th-century Bengali Renaissance. His grandfather, Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury, was a photographer in Kolkata who had been trained by Rudyard Kipling's father, the curator of the Lahore Museum. At the age of three, Roy Choudhury was admitted to a local Catholic school, and later, he was sent to the Rammohan Roy Seminary Oriental Seminary. The school was administered by the Brahmo Sama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sukrita Paul Kumar
Sukrita Paul Kumar is an Indian poet, critic, and academician. She has been the chief editor of ''Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions of India -'' a textbook prescribed by the University of Delhi for course use in its Honours B.A. programme. Early life and background Sukrita Paul Kumar was born in Nairobi, Kenya and emigrated to India when Kenya obtained its freedom from the British. She was educated at Zakir Husain College, Hindu College and Government College of Arts and Sciences, Marathwada University, India. Career As director of a UNESCO project on 'The Culture of Peace', she edited ''Mapping Memories -'' a volume of Urdu short stories from India and Pakistan.Funny part is, she does not know Urdu. Many of her poems, have emerged from her experience of working with homeless people, tsunami victims, and street children. Fellowships/Awards/Grants Sukrita Paul Kumar was awarded the Visitorship at Concordia University for the designing of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subhash Misra
Subhash Misra is a poet, development worker and UNICEF staff and an involuntary nomad. Subhash Misra's book ''Gangasmriti & Other Poems'' was published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata, India. Columnist Khushwant Singh wrote, "We have a new talented poet joining the band of Ganga worshipers. Subhash Misra was born on its banks at Mirzapur, educated on its banks at Varanasi and made his livelihood in Calcutta by the Hoogly. In his collection of poems, ''Gangasmriti & Other Poems'', he goes ecstatic in praise of ''Srishti: The Creation''. Subhash Misra’s second book of poems: ‘Exiles Always: Poems from Other Geographies’ (footnote – ) is a compilation of poems written between 2005-2013 depicting a sense of exile as he worked for Tsunami rehabilitation in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, was in the midst of Afghanistan and then Iraq fraught with violence – religious as well as political. His poems convey loss, and loneliness but also realism and hope in varying degrees. He carries h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smita Agarwal
Smita Agarwal (born 1958) is an Indian poet and a professor of English literature at the University of Allahabad, India. Biography Smita Agarwal's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies. In 1999 she was a writer in residence at the University of Stirling in Scotland, and the University of Kent in England. Agarwal's doctoral studies were on American poet, novelist and short story writer, Sylvia Plath. Agarwal is an editor and translator for Plath Profiles, the Sylvia Plath online journal, Indiana University. Agarwal is also a vocalist for All India Radio. Works *''Wish-granting Words.'' New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2002 *''Mofussil Notebook. Poems of Small Town India.'' E-book: Cooperjal Limited, UK, 2011 *''Mofussil Notebook. Poems, '' Print. With an Introduction and New Poems, Calcutta: Sampark, 2016. Edited *''Marginalized: Indian Poetry in English,'' ed. Smita Agarwal, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014. Poetry Anthologies Agarwal's poems have been includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindhu Rajasekaran
Sindhu Rajasekaran is an Indian author and film maker. Her debut novel ''Kaleidoscopic Reflections'' was longlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2011, while her prose and poetry have appeared in internationally acclaimed literary magazines. She co-founded an independent film production company, ''Camphor Cinema'', and produced the critically acclaimed Indo-British feature film '' Ramanujan'', based on the life and times of the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Her second book is a collection of short stories titled ''So I Let It Be''; it released in 2019. Early life and education Sindhu was born in Madras to IAS officer and Film Director Gnana Rajasekaran and Sakunthala Rajasekaran. She grew up in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Trained as an Electronics and Communications Engineer at Anna University, Sindhu received a master's degree in English from the University of Edinburgh. Literary works Sindhu’s debut novel ‘‘Kaleidoscopic Reflections’’ was longlisted for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samartha Vashishtha
Samartha Vashishtha (born 1983) is an Indian poet writing in English and Hindi, his mothertongue. He has published three volumes of poems; two in English — ''Anhadnad'', a collection of his childhood poems in the year 2000 and ''Shadows Don't Live in Walls'' in 2004 — and a book of poems in Hindi titled ''Sapne Mein Piya Pani'' (Rajkamal Prakashan, 2017). He won a ''Poetry Chain-Poetry Society (India) Annual Poetry Prize'' in 2003 for his poem-sequence, ''Simla''. Samartha has also contributed extensively to prominent Indian literary journals. His work in English has appeared in ''Chandrabhaga'' edited by Jayanta Mahapatra, Sahitya Akademi's ''Indian Literature'', ''The Journal of Literature and Aesthetics'', ''The Journal of the Poetry Society (India)'' and ''Poetry Chain''. His poems in Hindi have appeared in Pahal, an influential literary magazine brought out by Gyanaranjan from Jabalpur, ''Naya Gyanodaya, Vartaman Sahitya'' (Ghaziabad), and Sahitya Akademi's ''Samakaleen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Vanita
Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy. Early life and education Vanita earned her BA, MA and PhD in English at Delhi University. Career From 1994 to 1997 Vanita was Reader in the Department of English at Delhi University. She is now a professor of English and World Cultures at the University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fa ..., where she directs the program in South & South-East Asian Studies. While living in Delhi in 1978, Vanita co-founded '' Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society'', a journal that combined academic research and grassroots activism. She served as the journal's unp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the ''Apu Trilogy'' by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956. In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and incr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Krishna Singh
Ram Krishna Singh is a reviewer, critic, and contemporary poet who writes in Indian English. Early life Dr.Singh was born on 31 December 1950 in Varanasi, India. After earning a B.A in 1970, he gained his M.A. in English Literature from Banaras Hindu University in 1972, and his Ph.D. from Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, in 1981. He also obtained a Diploma in Russian in 1972. Career He started his career in journalism, as a Compilation Officer in the District Gazetteers Department, Lucknow, 1973, and a Journalist with the Press Trust of India, New Delhi, 1973-74. Changing to teaching he became a lecturer at the Royal Bhutan Polytechnic, Deothang, Bhutan, 1974-76. Joining the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad as Lecturer from 1976–83, he then rose to Assistant Professor in 1983. He has been Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, since 1993 and retired as Professor (HAG) on 31 December 2015. The poet is also a recognized name i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscila Uppal
Priscila Uppal (October 30, 1974 – September 5, 2018) was a Canadian poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright. Personal life and career Uppal was born in Ottawa, Ontario, she graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1993. She earned her Honours Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons.) in 1997 and her Ph.D in 2004 at York University as well as a Master's degree (MA) in English from the University of Toronto. Uppal was a professor in the Department of English at York University in Toronto and taught literature and creative writing. In 2007, her book of poetry ''Ontological Necessities'' was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Uppal's poetry collection ''Pretending to Die'' (2001) was shortlisted for the ReLit Award, and her memoir ''Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother'' was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2013. She served as the first poet-in-residence for the Rogers Cup Tennis Tournament in 2011. She was also the Olympic poet- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
P C K Prem
P C K Prem (P C Katoch) is an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, editor and critic, writing in English and Hindi. He is a former academician, civil servant, and member of the Himachal Public Service Commission, Shimla. Biography P C K Prem (P C Katoch) born on 28 September 1945, at Garh Malkher, Palampur, Himachal, is an Indian Poet, novelist, short story writer, editor and critic writing in English and Hindi. He post-graduated from Panjab University, Chandigarh in 1970. He has one daughter Dr. Shivalik Katoch Pathania and a son P. Vikranta Jay Katoch. Presently, he lives with his wife Shakun in their farm at Palampur-176061, Himachal. Literary career An author of more than fifty books in English and Hindi, P C K Prem, a former academician, civil servant and Member, Public Service Commission, Shimla, Himachal, has published nine collections of poetry, seven novels and two collections of short fiction in English. A few significant works on criticism are: ''Contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
