Indian poetry you should definitely pick up now
Poetry is the most elegant approach to arousing our feelings. It has the ability to give inanimate objects life and vision. Everybody needs a small dosage of it, be it comforting, or bold, and once you’re into it, it’s hard to pull back. Poetry has the power to truly move you, to be dreamy, to give you strength, and to melt your heart into a flowing river of emotions. It has the potential to be both your most amazing escape and your most crushing emptiness! With your choices, you can immerse yourself in its hypnotic splendor.
Here’s a list of some Indian poetry you should definitely pick up if poems are what tug at your heartstrings!
Feminist Fables by Sunita Namjoshi
Sunita Namjoshi is a fabulist and a lesbian poet. Her work has been recognized for confronting stereotypes such as homophobia, sexism, and racism. She is the author of numerous collections of fables, poetry, children’s books, and novels. Her work has been translated into many different languages, including Spanish, Italian, and Chinese. One of her voices was described as having a “great body of work, highlighted by sparkling wit, wordplay, and imaginative strength” in feminism. Writers such as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, and Kate Millett influenced Namjoshi.
Countries of the Body by Tishani Doshi
Tishani Doshi, born in Tamil Nadu to Welsh and Gujarati parents, is a poet, writer, and dancer whose debut book of poems. Her poetry explores a variety of themes and issues, including travel, love and longing, finding and redefining one’s identity across boundaries, and self-illumination, all of which are flavoured with her own experience with the same.
You Who Sleep Tonight and Mappings by Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth has received numerous honors, including the Padma Shri, the Sahitya Academy Award, the WH Smith Literary Award, and many others. Vikram Seth’s poem Dubious reveals his feelings about his sexuality. All You Who Sleep Tonight and Mappings are two of Seth’s significant works. The novel A Suitable Boy was adapted into a television series that broadcast on BBC One and is now available on Netflix.
Time’s Barter by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
Using a vast palette and the relatively unexplored canvas of India’s North East, Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s poetry is observational, descriptive, political, and tender, sincere, and uncompromising, employing a range of forms ranging from narrative free verse to brief oriental structures. Only here does the poet deviate from the original form in order to ingeniously localize the topic, injecting new meaning and texture while incorporating an Indian fabric. Appreciate these rhymes for their evanescence, packed lyricism, wistfulness, and reflection.
Geography of Tongues by Shikha Malaviya
Shikha Malaviya’s poetry in Geography of Tongues, as implied by the title and reinforced by the contents, is based on the shape-shifting terrain she has occupied throughout her life, as well as the crossing of different linguist tenors and languages that reside exclusively and simultaneously in her repertoire. She depends heavily on personalized narratives, myths, and histories, whether in free verse, prose poetry, or somewhere in between.
Readers continue to be enthralled by Indian poetry. These poets have carefully presented a range of true heartfelt sentiments for the never-ending quest for meaningful awakening. Which of these would you like to add to your TBR?
