His words are simple. His worldview is intricate yet delicate like a well worn beloved coat, or the complex fragrance of a garland of varied flowers. 

3 Poems by Kedarnath Singh

Sui aur Taage Ke Beech Mein 

Kuch Sutra Jo Ek Kisaan Baap Ne Apne Bete Ko Diye

Meri Bhasha Ke Log

August 31st was Amrita Pritam’s 102 birthday.

She was a writer...but even more than that (or because of that) she was a woman who could understand and express the many facets of love- its beauty, loss, longing and sublimity.

Celebrating Amrita Pritam with her memorable ‘Karmawali’

In 1892, Rabindranath Tagore wrote the iconic short story, Kabuliwala.

It was this story that went on to etch an enduring image of an Afghan in the minds of Indians - a rugged faced man whose honesty is proverbial, whose heart is as magnanimous as his shoulders are wide. A man who is strong enough to let his emotions show.

Thinking of Afghanistan today. Of the men and their little daughters.

Poets are people who give words to our pain, so it can be set free from the clutches of the heart.

When its Gulzar sahab, he also gives words to the sheer joy of childhood gibberish (Kitaab), to sublime longing in love (too many to list) and naughty dance numbers (Bidi jalayi le because Dil to bachcha hai ji)

For Gulzar’s birthday this week, just to say... “Tum aa gaye ho, noor aa gaya hai”

No one can say if ‘Maata Vimaata’, a short story by Bhisham Sahni was inspired by the Biblical, ‘The Judgement of Solomon’, but it has much the same pain and the very same question. What defines a mother? In this case, is it the woman who gives birth or the one who raises the child?

Thinking of the creator of unforgettable literature- Tamas, Hanoosh, Kabira Khada Bazar Mein, Bhagya Rekha, Wang Chu….Bhisham Sahni on his birthday (8th August). May he be reborn to tell the remaining stories...I am sure he had many more in him!

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Fear transforms us.

It makes us do things we never thought we would, often breaking through carefully crafted images of ourselves.

Sachdev is a generous employer, one looking out for the less privileged. Yadu is a man caught in desperate circumstances. One rainy night their fears meet head on.

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मिथिलेश्वर का जीवन परिचय

मिथिलेश्वर हिंदी साहित्य में ग्रामीण जीवन से जुडी कहानियां लिखते आये हैं.

कहानी के साथ-साथ उपन्यास भी उन्होंने लिखे  तथा इन दोनों विधाओं में अनेक कृतियाँ दी। प्रेमचंद और रेणु के बाद ग्रामीण कथा-लेखन में मिथिलेश्वर का नाम सबसे आगे है। वे उसी सादगी और सरलता से लिखते हैं, जिनके लिए प्रेमचंद और रेनू जाने गए।

मिथिलेश्वर ने बाल-साहित्य तथा नवसाक्षरोपयोगी अनेक कृतियों के साथ-साथ निबंध विधा में भी रचना की है तथा संपादन भी किया है। उनकी आत्मकथात्मक रचना भी प्रकाशित हो चुकी है।

Meaning is not always lost in translation. Translation can enhance, expand and breathe new life into words. Poetry well translated is sublime, especially when the original text is by the best and the translator is an excellent wordsmith too.

Poems by D.H Lawrence, Alberto De Lacerda, Wen Yi Dou, translated by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

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विश्व विख्यात कवियों द्वारा कृत कवितायेँ जिनका अनिवाद किया राष्ट्रकवि रामधारी सिंह 'दिनकर' ने.

दिनकर जी के दो कविता संग्रह , 'सीपी और शंख" और "आत्मा की आँखें" में से ये कवितायेँ चुनी गयी है.

जिन कवियों की रचनायें आप संग्रह में पाएंगे:

D H Lawrence

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Elizabeth Jennings

Nikolai Gumilev

Ezra Pound

Rainer Maria Rilke

Wen Yi Duo

Alberto De Lacerda

Kathleen Raine

Walter Savage Landor

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A woman... a grandmother now...returns to her childhood home. Memories come flooding back. Of life as it used to be...of love as it used to be.

"Few sons are like their fathers – many are worse, few better." ~Homer

These lines stand testament to the fact that sons will always be seen as a reflection, and at times an extension, of their father. From Greek tales to Shakespeare and movies...an abiding story is one of the push and tug that makes for this tangled, tough, beautiful, tender relationship.

Love is a many-splendoured emotion! Lucky are they who find and stay in love. But what if you are told that you have no right to fall in love...not so much in words but by the unsaid restrictions that the world you live in / “samaaj” has put on you.

And what if love still steals its way into your heart?

Here’s a tender love story by the great master of storytelling, Munshi Premchand- ‘Prem ki Holi’

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