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The Dew Drops . . . .

An Anthology of English Poems . . .

By: Akshaya Kumar Das

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The Dew Drops . . . .

An Anthology of English Poems . . .

By: Akshaya Kumar Das

The poems published here belong to all genres. They are on the themes of love, societal issues, current situation prevailing in the world, on nature, and on great personalities to luminaries. Each poem depicts the subjects beautifully in a classy style. The poet has adopted a unique style of writing, ending in a wonderful finish. The poems on nature, particularly on seasons, are wonderfully described. The seasonal poems have a festive touch in most of them. The poem touches the psyche of the people at large. The philosophical poems are superbly penned, written in a magnificent style to match beyond the level of expectation of the poetic fraternity and readers especially.

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Partridge Publishing

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1482869039

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9781482869033

Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover

The Many Lives of Agyeya

By: Akshaya Mukul

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Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover

The Many Lives of Agyeya

By: Akshaya Mukul

An outstanding literary biography" AMITAV GHOSH "Mukul writes beautifully, and brings to life a man who has often been misunderstood" BENJAMIN MOSER "This book is a remarkable contribution to the world of Indian letters: ANNIE ZAIDI Sachchidanand Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' is unarguably one of the most remarkable figures of Indian literature. From his revolutionary youth to acquiring the mantle of a (highly controversial) patron saint of Hindi literature, Agyeya's turbulent life also tells a history of the Hindi literary world and of a new nation-spanning as it does two world wars, Independence and Partition, and the building and fraying of the Nehruvian state. Akshaya Mukul's comprehensive and unflinching biography is a journey into Agyeya's public, private and secret lives. Based on never-seen-before archival material-including a mammoth trove of private papers, documents of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom and colonial records of his years in jail-the book delves deep into the life of the nonconformist poet-novelist. Mukul reveals Agyeya's revolutionary life and bomb-making skills, his CIA connection, a secret lover, his intense relationship with a first cousin, the trajectory of his political positions, from following M.N. Roy to exploring issues dear to the Hindu right, and much more. Along the way, we get a rare peek into the factionalism and pettiness of the Hindi literary world of the twentieth century, and the wondrous and grand debates which characterized that milieu. Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover features a formidable cast of characters: from writers like Premchand, Phanishwarnath Renu, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand and Josephine Miles to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, revolutionary Chandra Shekhar Azad and actor Balraj Sahni. And its landscapes stretch from British jails, an intellectually robust Allahabad and modern-day Delhi to monasteries in Europe, the homes of Agyeya's friends in the Himalayas and universities in the US. This book is a magnificent examination of Agyeya's civilizational enterprise. Ambitious and scholarly, Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover is also an unputdownable, whirlwind of a read.

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680

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9354925707

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9789354925702

Poetry, Politics and Culture

Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts

By: Akshaya Kumar

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Poetry, Politics and Culture

Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts

By: Akshaya Kumar

This book maps the journey of the Indian poetic imagination—in Hindi, Panjabi and Indian English—from its original quasi-spiritual longings to its activist interventions in the public domain. As Indian poetry of the post-1990s gravitates towards a non-Orientalised postcolonial nationalism, it seeks to rewrite and disseminate the shifting coordinates of nationalist imagination in terms of the dissent of the subaltern discontents of the nation. The book is interdisciplinary: it studies Indian poetry from the new emerging imperatives of postcolonialism, new historiography (subaltern, dalit and diasporas), nationalism, and cultural studies. Covering the two major north Indian languages—Hindi and Punjabi—along with poetry in Indian English, the book is a close textual study of about 150 poetry collections in these languages. It is path-breaking in its study of secular poetry written in the so-called vernaculars, with critical attention to its participation in the political as well as cultural processes of nation-making. This cutting-edge book should be of interest to scholars of Indian writings in English, Hindi and Panjabi, gender studies, dalit and diaspora studies, postcolonial poetry and to students reading South Asian literature and culture.

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389

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Routledge

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1317809629

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9781317809623

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The Dew Drops . . . .

The Dew Drops . . . .

Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover

Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover

Poetry, Politics and Culture

Poetry, Politics and Culture

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