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An Introduction by Kamala Das

An Introduction by Kamala Das By Bijay Kant Dubey An Introduction as a poem is an introduction of Kamala and she is getting introduced to the readers and critics of Indian English poetry. A confessional poetess, he is laying her inner heart bare, but one should not take it for that she is a simple girl, but is coquettish and intriguing. Her histrionics, theatrical stance, has none come to

A Poem-by-poem Study of Gitanjali--I

A Poem-by-poem Study of Gitanjali--I by Bijay Kant Dubey What is that makes Gitanjali really Gitanjali? It is not his novel idea, thought and reflection, but his use of Indian philosophy archetypal and racial, household and commonly that he has used and applied in. It is but Hindu view of life which lies expressed through the lines. The word Gitanjali means the anjali of geets, the
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Oneiric Visions by O.P.Bhatnagar

Oneiric Visions by O.P.Bhatnagar By: Bijay Kant Dubey Oneiric Visions is one of the best collections of O.P.Bhatnagar which he brought it out for the first time in 1980 with so many admirable poems telling of the use of irony, wit and satire, logic, reasoning and intellect. Herein he speaks about emotions and thoughts, fossil feeling, poems as smile and the dead men walking as skeletons.

A Rain of Rites by Mahapatra

A Rain of Rites by Jayanta Mahapatra By: Bijay Kant Dubey A Rain of Rites is one of the best poetry-collections of Jayanta Mahapatra to be have been authored, taking him to the pedestals of international name and fame, really a standard overseas presentation, an admirable one for an Indian writer of verse. Dawn is the first poem with which the collection opens and we get attuned to the

Listening to a Prayer: Mahapatra

Listening to a Prayer by Jayanta Mahapatra byBijay Kant DubeyStone cuts deepA bell trembles,touched by the painof countless people. Across the temple square,the wind that settles on my shouldershas nowhere to go:neither a silencenor an answer. Listening to a Prayer is one of those poems of Jayanta Mahapatra which figure in his A Rain of Rites collection of poems which has appeared from The