A collection of poems by Chennaveera Kanavi was released in 16 volumes by poet G.S. Shivarudrappa here on Thursday evening. On the occasion, Mr. Shivarudrappa said, “These volumes comprise the works of Mr. Kanavi over the past 60 years, which are unique in nature. His poems, particularly sonnets and romantic poems, appeal to those of all ages.” The volumes are published by Talukina Venkaniah Smaraka...
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Aditi Machado, the first Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize winner’s poems are short but leave you with a long lingering experienceFor such expressive joy and pain, here is one for whom we could really thank the internet!As it happens, if you have it in you, you become desperate for readers. So searching, at 15, she meandered through and found them aplenty on the teeming tracks of the ‘web’. People who...
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Poet S. Manjunath was conferred the Karki Literary Award for 2009 by veteran journalist Patil Puttappa at a function here on Sunday.Dr. D.S. Karki Sahitya Vedike organised the function at Sawai Gandharva Hall to mark the birth anniversary of poet D.S. Karki.Responding to the honour, Mr. Manjunath said that a poem should always be soothing and [it] should not create displeasure among readers.“There...
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number of literary works translated from Malayalam to Hindi were released at a function organised by the Bhasha Samanwaya Vedi at the Alakapuri Auditorium here on Thursday.Writer M.T. Vasudevan Nair released a translation of Mahakavi Akkitham’s select collection of poems by U.K.S Chauhan, IAS. Calicut University Vice-Chancellor Anwar Jahan Zuberi performed the honours for a translation of short stories...
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I had a fiver for everyone I've heard say, "I never watch any television apart from the news and David Attenborough", well, it would probably cover my licence fee. But while there being Nothing on TV has been a staple moan of British cultural life for some time now, radio is in far happier shape. The Rajar figures for the third quarter of the year were good for the BBC, especially Radios 3, 4 and 5...
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Srinagar, Oct 25 /--/ A run was organised on the banks of Dal Lake today to raise awareness about the need to protect the world famous water body from the onslaught of pollution which is threatening its existence. Accompanied by their parents and teachers, young students of a private educational institute carried placards which read 'Save our lakes, save our heritage, stop pollution'. Prior to the...
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“Until surrealism made a deliberate raid on the unconscious, poetry that aimed at being nonsense, apart from the meaningless refrains of songs, does not seem to have been common. This gives a special position to Edward Lear who was one of the first writers to deal in pure fantasy. His poems express a kind of amiable lunacy, a natural sympathy with whatever is weak and absurd. Lear could fairly be called...
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and partner Katy Perry have reportedly recorded a rendition of poet Edward Lear's 1871 nonsense verse 'The Owl And The Pussycat'.The couple did the recording at the famous Sunset Sound studios, where the likes of The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys and The Doors have made music in the past."Russell was just messing around in the studio with Katy. He was pretending to sing into the mic and started reciting...
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Amitabh Bachchan will be throwing a party to commemorate his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan's 101st birth anniversary, which falls on November 28.One of the most renowned Hindi poets of his time, the senior Bachchan has greatly influenced Amitabh, a fact reiterated by Bachchan always quoting from his father's most popular collection, Madhushala. The most oft quoted by him is, 'To further show his respect...
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Melissa Katsoulis's entertaining account of literary hoaxes from the ancient world to the present day covers all three main kinds of hoax: the "genuine" hoax, that is to say the hoax that was never intended to be discovered (the Hitler diaries, the Ossian poems); the mock hoax, where a writer adopts a persona to create a new literary voice, such as James Norman Hall's invention of the 10-year-old poet...
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