Nearly a century after the Irish poet W.B. Yeats helped launch Rabindranath Tagore to global fame, some of Ireland's most distinguished poets have teamed up with their Indian counterparts to celebrate a week-long festival of languages and culture in New Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata.Believed to be the first event of its kind, the festival will bring together some of the best-known living poets of India...
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Take a peek into the Malnad of yore at the wonderfully-preserved home of Kannada poet KuvempuSome years ago, while watching the award-winning “Kanooru Heggadathi”, two things lingered — the lush greenery that painted the screen, and the Kannada poet Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa (Kuvempu) on whose novel it was based. And, I made a mental note to visit the poet’s rain-drenched hometown some day, and see...
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Nearly a century after the Irish poet W.B. Yeats helped launch Rabindranath Tagore to global fame, some of Ireland's most distinguished poets have teamed up with their Indian counterparts to celebrate a week-long festival of languages and culture in New Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata.Believed to be the first event of its kind, the festival will bring together some of the best-known living poets of India...
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: Nearly a century after the Irish poet W. B. Yeats helped launch Rabindranath Tagore to global fame, some of Ireland's most distinguished poets have teamed up with their Indian counterparts to celebrate a week-long festival of languages and culture in New Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata.Believed to be the first event of its kind, the festival will bring together some of the best-known living poets of...
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collection of Lord Byron's letters to a close friend- revealing a highly personal side of the poet, his romance, fury towards Christianity and rival literary figures-has been sold for a record price of over 250,000 pounds at a London auction.Sotheby's, where the auction took place, said that the price is a world record for a series of letters or a manuscript by a British romantic poet.The letters were...
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Sadguru K. Sivananda Murthy handing over the first copy of ’Daiva Sankalpam’ of Kopparapu Kavulu to GITAM University President MVVS Murthy in Visakhapatnam on Saturday. Litterateur Peri Ravi Kumar, Sahasra Avadhani Madugula Naga Phani Sarma and MAA Sarma are also seen.VISAKHAPATNAM: Reciting poetry extemporarily is something unique among Telugu poets and this was acknowledged universally, observed...
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commemorate 50 years of Colombia-India diplomatic relations, Rabindranath Tagore Centre (ICCR, Calcutta), in collaboration with the Embassy of Colombia, presents a Colombian literary festival,. As part of the festival, an anthology of Colombian short stories translated into Hindi will be presented in the presence of the author, Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Also, a special Colombian literary award will be...
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the State government’s highest literary honour.Culture Minister M.A. Baby said here on Friday that Sugathakumari was chosen for the award in view of her outstanding contribution to Malayalam literature.She was selected by a committee headed by poet O.N.V. Kurup and comprising Kerala Sahitya Akademi president M. Mukundan, Dr. D. Benjamin and Prof. Sreedevi.Named after father of Malayalam literature...
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Owen Sheers isn't like other poets: when he's not fronting TV shows, he's picking his way through Dylan Thomas's wallet or diving into lakes with a Booker nominee.There is something incongruous about interviewing Owen Sheers amid the rooftop haunts of Piccadilly. Sipping mint tea, blue-eyed and improbably boyish, he sits perched in a private room on the forelock of the old Simpsons building. With its...
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KOLKATA: An evening of poetry that began with the lilting tunes from an Irish poet’s flute and ended in the resonant vocals of a Baul singer here on Wednesday flagged off a 10-day festival that attempts to revive a culture of exchange between Irish and Indian poets.The event called ‘A Note Let Go,’ a line from a 9th century Irish syllabic verse, was a part of the visit of a delegation from Queen’s...
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