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As Indian poetry of the post-1990s gravitates towards a non-orientalised post colonial nationalism, it seeks to rewrite culture in terms of the dissent of the subaltern discontents of its nation. From the medieval Bhakti movement to the present-day Naxalite discourse, poets have been at the vanguard of political leadership, providing intellectual stimulus as well as cultural momentum to people's participation in the making of the nation. This book maps the ...
The reputation of Ramanujan the translator eclipses the claims of Ramanujan the poet. This book seeks to correct this critical lopsidedness, as it endeavours to establish his poetry as the mainstay of his creative genius. Akshaya Kumar argues that translation as an enterprise of dialogue and exchange between languages and cultures culminates into poetry - a poetry that imbibes and inheres the desi, the marga and the videshi variants of reality in a frame which is ...