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BEST OF MUSE POETRY CONTEST |
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BEST OF MUSE FICTION CONTEST |
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Sitakant Mahapatra, the eminent Oriya poet and Jnanapith Awardee says, “Poetry has its own ‘truth’ – the poetic truth, different from commonly understood or intellectually debated truth. The philosopher’s truth does not concern a poet very much. He lives with the truth of his ‘being,’ our essential human condition.”
The section includes articles by Malathi Nidadavolu and T P Rajeevan. Kala Ramesh’s report on 9th World Haiku Festival, Bangalore is given along with excerpts from keynote address of Susumu Takiguchi.
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BOOK REVIEWS... |
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Prof R K Singh, reviewing Rizvi and Rizvi’s book on Indian English Poetry, says that “the authors are clear in their mind that the current Indian English poetry scene is ‘crowded’ with poetasters, versifiers, struggling poets, true poets, and great poets …”
In the section also read Arvind Gigoo’s review of Seema Rani Minhas’ Plotting Change and Patricia Prime’s review of Aju Mukhopadhyay’s In Celebration of Nature.
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FICTION... |
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In a moving story The Tissue Paper Writings Uma Maheshwari delves into the troubled psyche of the protagonist, caught between her intense feelings for her father on his death bed and a failed relationship with a lover.
The other writers featured in the section are Amita Basu, Sharada Murali and the Telugu writer Khadeer Babu, translated by P Jayalakshmi.
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POEMS... |
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In a touching tribute to Um Qishta, a Palestinian woman who cradled a dying Israeli soldier in her lap, Homi Framroze writes:
At that holy moment / She wasn’t Arab or Jew / She was the mother of Palestine /
She was the mother of Israel / She was the mother of the suffering /
She was the mother of the wronged / She was the Universal Mother.
In the section, also read the poetry of Aamir Hasan, Ashok Gupta, Ezhilvendan, Gautam Nadkarni, K V Dominic, Kumarendra Mallick, Michael Creighton, Mukesh Williams and Pramod Mathew. Ambika Ananth presents her selection from Your space. |
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