Emerson’s Brahma,
Whitman’s A Passage to India,
Elion’s The Waste Land,
Auden’s Partition,
Yeats’ Meru, The Indian to His God, The Indian Upon God,
Excluding the Indian poets and poetesses
Writing in English
And calling themselves
Indo-Anglian, Anglican writers of verse
Of Indian English poetry, Indian poetry in English.
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Uska khuni anta hogaKyonki sadharan nukkad sabha hone ke baadApnai maksad she bhatak gayinKyonkiuski niva ek barud ke surang par thi,Ek etihaas ke khokhalepan pei.Viodh karnaa thik hai, pradarshan kijiyeApnei-apnei anada mei,Kahani likh, kavita padh,Kabhi dshbahkta ho, kabhi desh-virodhi hoLekin Pakistan ko apnaa kahanaa, Bangladesh ko,Kashmir ki azadi ke baarei naareibaazi karnaYah sab thik nahi,Negative…
Radha
To beA foreignerGirl.An EnglishOr American,A Polish,DutchOr Norwegian Radha.But RadhaIs RadhaWhetherIndianOr foreigner.Love chasteAnd celestialAnd hearty,CosmicAnd divine.Metaphysical,Abstract,Transcendental,PureAnd sacred.O, ask it not,Question it not,Radha is Radha,The heart is pure,The soul is!
How have they debarred me negating my poetry?
From to be a poet,How they have upped the ante?Instead of that, I am strugglingAnd shall continue to.You say it frankly who has supported meNeither the Padshri nor the Padma Vibhusan awardee poets,Nor the Sahiya Akademi awardees,Nor the bluff masters of contemporary Indian English poetry,I mean the bogus students after having got the theses from…
The critic as a no-man
And this is absolutely correct in respect ofMinor Indian English voicesAnd their slender poetry volumes.
Should be our top priority,
Green Earth?
The evening was descending
In the distant nearThough not visible,But the voices resounding,Hari bol, Hari bol, Hari bol,Hari bol, Hari bol,Speak, speak you the name of Hari,I mean God, that is Hari,Ram nam satya hain, Ram nam satya hain,Yehi sabhi ka gatya hain,Ram’s, I mean the Lord’s name is the truth,This is the way for all,Movement, duration and time.