Sonia Gandhi A profile in Courage and Grace, is a mini epic in the dialogic and dramatic vein. The poet uses the symbology coined from Jung’s concept of shadow, from Durga Archetype, Buddhist Mandala, etc to capture the story and script of Sonia’s personality in the India Gandhi’s households, becoming he First and emerging finally as a charismatic leader. The defining moments in the narration are highlighted. Sonia Gandhi as a poem takes its place in the cavalcade of ranchan’s dialogue epics on Christ, Ma Sarda, Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Ramakrishna, Manjushri, Shirdi Sai, kali, Krishna, Baha’u’llah, and other works.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Som P. Ranchan
Som. P. Ranchan is an unusual signature in contemporary writing, a poet, literateur, myth maker/cartographer, folk lorist, therapist, critic he has books in all these categories. lately he has taken to story writing. All my boys and othr stories is the second in the genre, the first being O'er Travell'd Roads (Har-Anand). Som P. Ranchan was Professor and Head of English for a decade at H.P. University Shimla and held numerous other positions such as Dean of Social Sciences, of Arts and of Languages, etc. He has been visiting Professor too at Indian Universities and abroad. He has had many fellowships: Fulbright, Smith-mundt of Hazen Foundation, University of Wisconsin, H.P. Academy, HRD, Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Som P. Ranchan is known for his renaissance rangings.
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