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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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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third track from Metallica’s second album Ride the Lightning. Composed by Cliff Burton, James Hetfield, and Lars Ulrich, the lyrics are based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel of the same name. The chromatic introduction, often mistaken for an electric guitar, is in fact Cliff Burton playing his bass guitar through distortion and wah-wah. The intro was written by Burton before joining Metallica; Burton first...
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set of English poems written in Nadapuram will soon be set to matching verses in the Assamese language, proving yet again that literature with universal themes and soul-stirring simplicity can transcend boundaries and strike chords in alien lands.A selection of poems from P.A. Noushad’s two anthologies, ‘Touch of the Soul’ from Olive Publications and ‘Being into Infinity’ from Monsoon Editions is being...
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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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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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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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its annual theatre festival this year, Prithvi will embrace both the indigenous and the avant-garde under its vast theme Theatres of India.Party to the latter is Theatre Roots and Wings, a relatively new theatre troupe from Kerala that has, in three years, chosen to push the boundaries of performance art.The troupe will present in Mumbai Sahyande Makan — The Elephant Project, a labour of love that...
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