Prominent scholars from India and abroad discuss the poetry of Charu Sheel Singh who has emerged as a major Indian English poet of the eightecs. The canon of Indian English Poetry is in crisis. The poetry which be called Indian is masquerading as the mainstream Indian English Poetry. Charu Sheel’s poetry thoroughly Indianises this poetic tradition by its scriptural consciousness and mythographic imagination. Singh uses a highly post-modernist Idiom to make the antiquated contemporary. Prof. Singh has evolved a new poetic genre in the process which substitutes the epic proper and renovates upon the traditional forms of poetry. The postmodernist idiom, moreover, does not destroy the sublime which is the very essence of the Indianness. Such poetry canonizes itself in the eternity of time without the distinctions of he past, present or the future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Krishna Banerjee
Dr. Krishna Banerjee helds Masters Degrees in English and Philosophy. She has been a Gold medallist, a Ph.D. in English, and a recipient of many awards and prizes including the Plaque from the Divine Life Society, Maracaibo, Venezuala, for Honorary teaching. She has also worked in UGC assisted research Projects and is a creative writer in Bengali and English languages. She has written a biography in Spanish and a book on Mata Anandmayi Languages. She has written a biography in Spanish and a book on Mata Anandmayi. She has done good research work on the poetry of the Romantic Period in the light of the critical canons as generated by the New Criticism. Her major interests now center on Modernism and Post-Modernism, Derrida and deconstruction. Dr. Banerjee also English and vice versa. She also engages herself with Mata Anandmayi and Ramkrishna Ashrams, among others. Dr. Banerjee is working, at the moment, a professor of English, Women’s College, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
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