THE OXFORD ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN INDIAN POETRY

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Item Code: IDD650
Author: Vinay Dharwadker and ED. BY: A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher: Oxford India Paperbacks
Language: English
Edition: 2002
ISBN: 019 5639170
Pages: 285
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.4" x 5.4"
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About the Book:

This anthology, the first significant work of its kind, contains some of the finest Indian poetry written in the twentieth century. Bringing together 125 poets in English and English translation from 14 Indian languages, the collection provides an overview of the major figures, forms, and movements in Indian poetry in the last hundred years. The poets represented here include Rabindranath Tagore, Subramania Bharti, Nirala, G. Shankara Kurup, Kaifi Azmi, Anuradha Mahapatra, Salim Peeradina, and Vikram Seth. The volume also represents the best work of nearly 70 translators from various countries and contains an informative critical essay on the literary, historical, and social context of modern Indian poetry as well as notes on the poems and the contributors. As a work of craftsmanship and learning, this book is a source of pleasure, discovery and stimulation for general readers and scholars alike.

About the Author:

Vinay Dharwadker, poet, translator and critic, teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

A. K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) was a poet, translator, folklorist and an eminent scholar of South Asian language and culture.

Experts from Reviews:

'…a refreshing volume…[it contains] a number of gems that are robed in the images of experience and thought.'

The Hindustan Times

This collection offers 'kaleidoscopic glimpses of life-experience.'

The Statesman

'All in all, [This] is an admirable attempt to present the growth, the dimensions and variegated depth of Indian poetry in different language.'

Indian Literary Panorama

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

  1. ON READING A LOVE POEM
      The Pact
        P.S. Rege
      This Night
        N. Revathi Devi
      On Reading a Love Poem
        Kedarnath Singh
      Mother
        P. Lankesh
      The Girl's Desire Moves Among Her Bangles
        Gagan Gill
      flute-music
        Rabindranath Tagore
      Women in Dutch Painting
        Eunice de Souza
      Outside the Furnace
        Aziz Quaisi
      The Knot
        Vinda karandikar
      Love Poem for a Wife, 2
        A.K. Ramanujan
      Woman, 2
        Jyotsna Milan

  2. A POND NAMED GANGA
      Consolidaton to Empty Pitchers
        K.S. Narasimhaswami
      The Forest of Yellow Bamboo Trees
        B.S. Mardhekar
      from Hymns in Darkness
        Nissim Ezekiel
      The Void
        G.M. Muktibodh
      Woman
        Hira Bansode
      Man
        Archana Varma
      The Wall
        Ismail
      Tall Buildings
        Munib-ur-Rahman
      Monday
        Vijaya Mukhopadhyay
      An October Morning
        Jayanta Mahapatra
      The Well
        Padma Sachdev
      Drought
        Sitanshu Yashashchandra
      If Hot Flowers Come to the Street
        R. Meenakshi
      Desert Landscape
        Agha Shahid Ali
      A Pond Named Ganga
        Chandrashekhar Kumbar

  3. HOUSEHOLD FIRES
      Spell
        Anuradha Mahapatra
      Two Women Knitting
        Mrinal Pande
      Household Fires
        Indira Sant
      To Mother
        S. Usha
      Salutations
        Shanmuga Subbiah
      This Man
        G.S. Shivarudrappa
      Amalkanti
        Nirendranath Chakrabarti
      Compromise
        Akhtar-ul-Iman
      Fear
        Devdas Chhotray
      Humiliation
        Kaifi Azmi
      Freak
        Chandrashekhar Patil
      Robinson Crusoe
        Soubhagya Kumar Mishra
      The Buddha
        Daya Pawar
      My Father Travels
        Dilip Chitre
      Girl in the Kitchen
        Viadehi
      Hot Noor in Malabar
        Kamala Das
      To My Daughter
        N. Balamani Amma
      Her Garden
        Meena Alexander
      Avatars
        V. Indira Bhavani
      Husband
        Popati Hiranandani
      Man: 1961
        Pranabendu Dasgupta
      Genesis
        K. Satchidanandan
      Sisters
        Saleem Peeradina
      Family Pride
        T.S. Venugopalan
      Times Wins
        Benoy Majumdar
      Forensic Medicine
        Gieve Patel
      Another Me
        Api
      Birthmarks
        Rajani Parulekar

  4. THE MASTER CARPTENTER
      from Some People Laugh, Some People Cry
        Sri Sri
      The Roys The pleasure Dome
        Shrikant Verma
      The Master Carpenter
        G. Shankara Kurup

  5. WHAT IS WOTH KNOWING
      Poem
        Labhshankar Thacker
      What Is Worth Knowing?
        Sujata Bhatt
      Situation
        Kaa Naa Subramanyam
      The Creative Process
        Amrita Pritam
      A Pair of Glasses
        Savithri Rajeevan
      The Diamond ofCharacter
        Kabita Sinha
      Tamil
        Ganakoothan
      Our Hindi
        Raghuvir Sahay
      Woman
        Siddhalinga Pattanshetti
      The Naming of Things
        Bahinabai Chaudhari
      The yellow River
        Nabaneeta Dev Sen
      Old Leaves from the Chinese Earth
        Sadanand Rege
      The Itch
        K. Ayyapa Paniker
      I and 'I'
        Khalil-ur-Rahman Azmi
      White Paper
        Nara
      Wind, 9
        Subhramania Bharti
      Forgive Me
        Shakti Chattopadhyay
      On Bismillah Khan's Shenai
        Chennavira Kanavi
      Still Life
        Shahryar
      The Alphabet
        Arun Kolatkar

  6. THE DOE IN HEAT
      Green Snake
        B.R. Lakshman Rao
      Snake
        Paresh Chandra Raut
      Dawn
        Nirmalprabha Bardoloi
      In Camp
        Jibanananda Das
      Fish
        Bhanuji Rao
      Santhal Poems, 1
        Bishnu De
      A Page grom the New Diary
        Nida Fazli
      Next Page
        Atmanam
      Whirlwind
        Ravji Patel
      National Bird
        N. Pichamurti
      Face to Face
        K.V. Tirumalesh
      Frogs
        Buddhadeva Bose
      The Black Panther
        Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena

  7. THE POSSESSED CITY
      Sea Breeze, Bombay
        Adil Jussawalla
      Calcutta and I
        Sunil Gangopadhyay
      Tryst
        Sunanda Tripathy
      New Delhi, 1974
        Vinay Dharwadker
      The City, Evening, and an Old Man: Me
        Dhoomil
      Winding Sand
        Narehs Guha
      Jaisalmer, 1
        Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh
      Speaking of Place
        R. Parthasarathy
      Almora Spring
        Sumitranandan Pant
      On the Slope of this Hill
        Shamsher Bahadur Singh
      Passing Through Rajasthan
        Umashankar Joshi
      Rice
        Chemmanam Chacko
      Of Mohenjo Daro at Oxford
        Keki N. Daruwalla
      Fire
        Amiya Chakravarty
      American Tourist
        B.C. Ramachandra Sharma
      Days in New York
        Shiv K. Kumar

  8. DO SOMETHING, BROHTER
      Towards Delhi
        Kunwar Narain
      Lifetime
        Narayan surve
      Stone-masons, My Father, and Me
        Namdeo Dhasal
      Babur
        Dom Moraes
      The Corpse
        Jagannath Prasad Das
      Come Back, Alexander
        Sati Kumar
      Hiroshima
        Agyeya
      A Doctor's Journal Entry for August 6, 1945
        Vikram Seth
      America, America
        K. Nisar Ahmad
      Burn this Sari
        A.Jayaprabha
      Purdah, 1
        Imtiaz Dharker
      I Never Saw You
        Jyoti Lanjewar
      Morsel
        Ali Sardar Jafri
      The Election
        Sitakant Mahapatra
      The Task
        Subhash Mukhopadhyay
      The Betrayal
        Nirala
      Do Something, Brother
        M. Gopalakrishna Adiga
      Salaam
        Mangesh Padgaonkar
  9. Afterword: Modern Indian Poetry and its Context

      Vinay Dharwadker
      Notes to the poems
      Suggestions for Further Reading
      Select Notes on Poets and Translators
      Indexs of Languages, Poets, and Translators
      Copyright statement
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