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A SELECTION OF POEMS
Introduction
Among the multiple events organised during India International Centre’s Water Festival early in 2004, an ample provision was made for poetry—that is, the reading of poems in different languages by poets; the recitation of works by poets or writers, past or present, from this country or elsewhere. In addition, there were poems to go with Sharat Kumar’s photographs of the brook in Jageshwar. The poetry-reading session consisted of poems, mostly in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi—read out by their authors along with their rendering in English—as well as some in English. Still other readers, some of them from the audience, graciously recited poems by poets from the past times.
This volume consists of select poems recited ...
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