India’s GI Tag is growing hand that promises higher economic gains, fostering quality production and better distribution of profits. Hiraman…
The Tiger of Nathu La Rai Singh Yadav was born on 17 March 1925 in village of Kosli in Gurgaon…
A versatile genius Gieve Patel was an Indian poet, dramatist, painter, visual artist, and doctor.Nissim Ezekiel’s 1966 release of poems began his writing career. ‘How Do You Withstand’, ‘Body Mirrored Mirroring’, and ‘On Killing A Tree’ are some of his other works. For a decade, he led poetry classes at Rishi Valley School. His poems appeared in Anthologies The Golden Treasure of Writers Workshop and Contemporary Indian Poetry. He also translated into English songs written by Gujarati poet Akho in the 17th century. He examined modern life and depicted social reality via poetry, emphasising both its intricacy and beauty and revealed the cruelty of man toward nature. The beleaguered terrain of the human body; its absurdity, perishability, and frailty; the vulgar social inequalities of caste and class, the plight of the subaltern, always pushed to the periphery of history and art, the daily litany of violence, conflict, and pain, the everpresent threat of physical death, and a penetrating curiosity about what lay beyond a world of volatile materialism were among his enduring concerns.…
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