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Hope - A poem by Ayesha Salman
I had earlier posted a few poems by Ayesha Salman. She has sent me her new poem which, true to her style, is original and inventive with the diction. Hope You pour in me deliciously Soothing my min… more →
Jahane Rumi
Questioning the Conceptual Validity of Nativism
Kamalakar wrote 1 week ago: Among the literary critics in India are some who feel that the quiet acceptance of the Euro-American … more →
Embedded Imagination and Otherness in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence
Kamalakar wrote 1 week ago: Intersections is a journal maintained by Australian National University’s Gender Relations Cen … more →
Raja Rao's Kanthapura, nationalism and caste
Kamalakar wrote 2 weeks ago: Raja Rao’s Kanthapura enacts some of the motifs of postcolonialism. In my previous post here I … more →
Dalit English Poet - Meena Kandasamy
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Kamalakar wrote 3 weeks ago: Recently I came across an exciting voice in Indian English poetry: Meena Kandasamy. I first read her … more →
Bhakti Expressions
Kamalakar wrote 3 weeks ago: H S Shivprakash is a brilliant poet who writes in Kannada. He has been a premier poet and dramatist … more →
Bibliography - Indian English Literature
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Kamalakar wrote 4 weeks ago: Here is a fragmentary bibliography for the study of Indian English Literature. I am posting these fr … more →
An Essay on Nissim Ezekiel's Background, Casually
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: from: google images Nissim Ezekiel’s poem ‘Background, Casually’ is one of his mos … more →
Girish Karnad Bibliography
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: Girish Karnad is an important playwright of the modern India alog with Vijay Tendulkar. Karnad … more →
Punjabi Novelist Dalip Kaur Tiwana's Gone are the Rivers
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: Gone are the Rivers is a novel by the Punjabi novelist Dalip Kaur Tiwana. from: sikhiwiki.org Tiwana … more →
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, II
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: Feminist theories have questioned the implication of Simone de Beauvoir’s formulation, “One is not b … more →
Meenakshi Mukherjee
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: Meenakshi Mukherjee was a fine scholar whose opinions could reach a large audience as they were not … more →
Dalit Poetry in Kannada II
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: One of the contemporary Kannada poets whose work I am amazed by is N K Hanumantayya. He has two coll … more →
Nissim Ezekiel's Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: Nissim Ezekiel is a poet of self-exploration. He carved out a poetic place for the smallness of the … more →
Jayant Mahapatra's poem "Hunger"
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: Jayant Mahapatra, along with Ezekiel, Ramanujan and Dom Moraes, is a major voice of the first wave o … more →
Contemporary Kannada Poetry I
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: Manjunath S, sometime called ‘Hakkipalti Manjunath’ after the title of his first collect … more →
Dalit Poetry in Kannada
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Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: It may not be an exaggeration to say that in the recent past much of the notable poetry in Kannada h … more →
Raja Rao, ‘Kanthapura’ – II
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: Here I continue a reading of that old favourite of some readers of Indian English novel, Kanthapura. … more →
Kannada Novel by Ashok Hegde
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: In this post I want to describe a novel by Ashok Hegde who writes stories and novels in Kannada. He … more →
Arundhati Roy "The God of Small Things" I
Kamalakar wrote 1 month ago: A few scattered ideas about this v. good novel. I hope to add more thoughts later may be. Had Arundh … more →
