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Lakshmi
- Mar 22
- 6 min
Following World Poetry Day
On World Poetry Day (21 March), as I was preparing to read a poem out loud to be recorded, so that it could be posted on some of the most...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 21, 2021
- 2 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'LAETITIA PILKINGTON'
Laetitia Pilkington was no ordinary woman. Pilkington's extraordinariness was rather conspicuous, especially in the Libertine age or...
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Megha S. Sunder
- Aug 30, 2021
- 2 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'O. N. V. KURUP'
When reading or listening to his poems, one could easily wonder if there ever lived a poet who loved Mother Earth as fervently as this...
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Ahmad Towaiq
- Jul 31, 2021
- 2 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'ABU AL TAYYEB AL MUTANABBI'
The tenth century poet Abu Al Tayyeb Al Mutanabbi is one of the greatest world poets, who wrote in Arabic. His poems are riddled with...
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Lakshmi
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'HENRY DAVID THOREAU'
Had we began our conservation drive, at least, as early as Thoreau had insisted upon it our young activist Greta Thunberg could have...
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Ahmad Towaiq
- Jun 19, 2021
- 1 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'MOHAMMAD BIN IDREES AL SHAFEI'
A travel enthusiast who toured most of the Arab world in search of religious and linguistic knowledge including Gaza, Cairo, Mecca,...
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Ahmad Towaiq
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'BISHER BIN KHAZIM AL ASADI'
War poetry, as a genre, is hugely popular. These poems vividly paint the trauma, the pain, the loss, the atrocities and every nightmare...
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Lakshmi
- May 20, 2021
- 2 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'LEIGH HUNT'
The glad demeanour and mischievous tones in Hunt's most shared and well known poems must come from the cheerful, sensitive and perceptive...
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Lakshmi
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'Mahakavi KUMARAN ASAN'
Kumaran Asan was awarded the title Mahakavi (great poet), by Madras University in 1922. When the evils of caste system had cast its...
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Lakshmi
- May 7, 2021
- 1 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'FRIEDRICH von SCHILLER'
Although celebrated as one of the greatest playwrights, Schiller is first a poet. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German...
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Lakshmi
- Apr 26, 2021
- 2 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'GOPAL PRASAD VYAS'
क्यों इस राशन के युग में, पानी बेकार बहाऊँ मैं? [In this era of extreme scarcity Why must I let water run out?] Quite serious an issue!...
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Lakshmi
- Apr 17, 2021
- 2 min
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'JOHN WILMOT, Earl of Rochester'
The first poet featured here on O, John Wilmot, was the second Earl of Rochester. A libertine, the Earl was infamous for his waywardness...
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