ಕವನ ಸಂಕಲನ ಸರಣಿ - ಜಿ ಪಿ ರಾಜರತ್ನಂ - ರತ್ನನ ಪದಗಳು. This is a poem collection of G P Rajaratnam who has penned these lines in alcoholic slang terms. There is depth in the concept but it’s covered with a humor touch.

Episode 26 - ಅರಣ್ಯಕಾಂಡ - ಮುನಿಗಳ ಕೆಲವು ಬಗೆಯ ವಿವರ. This short passage in chapter 6 of Aranyakanda gives us some details on various powers of some munis who lived in that forest.

ಚನ್ನವೀರ ಕಣವಿ - ದೀಪಧಾರಿ. Chennaveera Kanavi- Deepadhari. This is the poet’s 5th Kavana Sangraha dedicated to Da. Raa. Bendre on Bendre’s 61st birthday. This collection has 19 poems in total and here is a pick of 7 among them on this podcast.

ಕವನ ಸಂಕಲನ ಸರಣಿ - 7 - ರವೀಂದ್ರನಾಥ್ ಠಾಕೂರ್ - ಗೀತಾಂಜಲಿ. ಇದು Rabindranath Tagore ರ - Geetanjali ಕನ್ನಡ ಅನುವಾದಿತ ಸಂಕಲನ - ಇದನ್ನ ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಅನುವಾದಿಸಿದವರು ಪ್ರಹ್ಲಾದ ನರೇಗಲ್ಲರು. This has about 75 poems which are grouped under 7 different categories. Amongst them are chosen 20 in this podcast.

ಅಯೋಧ್ಯಾ ಕಾಂಡ - ಸೀತೆ ಅನಸೂಯೆಯರ ಭೇಟಿ - ಅನಸೂಯಾ ದೇವಿಯ ಕಾಣಿಕೆ. An excerpt from chapter 118 of Ayodhya kanda of Ramayana. An old and aged Anasuya devi is delighted to meet Seeta and wishes to gift her something special. They both fondly talk over on duties of a wife!

ಕವನ ಸಂಕಲನ ಸರಣಿ - 6 - ಬಿ ಎಂ ಶ್ರೀಕಂಠಯ್ಯ - ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ಗೀತೆಗಳು. A chosen pick of 8 translated Kannada poems from the original English poems by BMSri.

ಕವನ ಸಂಕಲನ ಸರಣಿ - 5 - ದಿನಕರ ದೇಸಾಯಿ - ಕವನ ಸಂಗ್ರಹ. This is a collection of 69 poems of Shri. Dinakara Desai - with multiple genre like love, kids prose, poverty, backward caste, matter-of-fact reality prose like farmers protest, bengals drought, poetry on famous personalities like Gandhi, Kalidasa, Raja Ram a Mohan Roy etc. In this episode - you will see a handpicked chosen 15 poems among the collection.

ಅಯೋಧ್ಯಾ ಕಾಂಡ - ಜಾಬಾಲಿ ಮಹರ್ಷಿಯ ನಾಸ್ತಿಕವಾದ - ರಾಮನ ಮನವೊಲಿಸುವ ಸಲುವಾಗಿ. Jabali maharshi tries to play along with Bharata to convince Rama to return to Ayodhya and he uses Atheism for his part of argument.

ಕವನ ಸಂಕಲನ ಸರಣಿ - 4 - ಕೆ ಎಸ್ ನರಸಿಂಹಸ್ವಾಮಿ - ಇರುವಂತಿಗೆ. Iruvantige means “Royal Jasmine” flower in English. This poem collection has about 28 poems and amongst them are chosen 5 on this episode. K. S. Narasimhaswamy does his magic of penning a woman’s inner turbulence so well in many of these poems.

ಕವನ ಸಂಕಲನ ಸರಣಿ - 3 - ದ ರಾ ಬೇಂದ್ರೆ - ಸೂರ್ಯಪಾನ. Suryapana is a collection of 60 poems from Bendre which was published on occasion of his 60th birthday during 1956 from his dear friend - Bhalachandra Ghanekara. Among those 60 poems, you get to see my pick of 8 poems in this episode. Happy listening!