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This book is totally based upon Indian theme and in this book I tried to show about Indian culture, tradition, village, freedom fighter, great personalities, monuments and Indian women etc. If someone reads it he/she definitely can know about India in the short basis. I would like to tell honestly that I had been writing this book for 3 years and now it has completed. My whole book is in poetry and whatever I wrote in it, it is the way of poems, according...
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Siddharths poems, written in his early teens, delve into a variety of issues, analysed from a schoolboys perspective, and range from the problems of farmers and racial discrimination to the grandeur of nature. They also create picturesque scenes, where one can be transported to a world of wildlife, surrounded by the beauty of nature and the joys of life. Some of his poems are descriptions of lives of people, leaving the message of hope, of light in...
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If you have observed the changing world through the wrong end of a telescope, then you will feel a level of resonance with the selections in this book. All those messages of hopeabout seeking the holy grail of self-fulfillmenthave made many, including the author, snap out of the assembly line in the grind factory and follow their own twisted paths. The observations in this collection are a summation of experiences (real and imaginary) of a sometimes...
4) The Wayfarer
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As a member of an uprooted family settled after partition of the country, on the other side of the border, the author in her book reflects on the pain, fear, embarrassment, sympathy, and affection of people who have been left to themselves yet, inspired by their own determination, have walked myriad journeys to become leading lights in their own ways.
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Ramayana and Other Poems is a beautiful collection of poems that brings the story of Indias great epic Ramayana in wonderfully woven poetic verses. The narrative is visually impacting and takes you through the journey of Lord Rama in a mesmerizing way. There are other poems that depict the beauty of nature around us and also touch upon some divine aspects of existence.
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No voice should go unheard No picture should go unseen No text should go unread No emotion should go unfelt This book is a collection of a few poems that speak about various emotions captured from the heart. These poems are the sensations created in silence, by a soul that sometimes appear to be a song, an unsung song of the soul in solitude.
8) Reflections
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Reflections is immense pleasure & thought - provoking. Gentle rhythm in the poems and lucid, tasteful expressions on themes which are undoubtedly laudable is soothing & rejuvenates one in ones otherwise busy & tension- ridden life.
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A carpenter's wife gives birth to a still-born God at a relief camp. Pink Floyd begins to make more sense than a two decade long relationship with formal education. Her lover keeps coming back to her life almost like her bronchial infection. Pigeons get suicidal. Crows are paranoid. "so far and during" is a poet's response to the times when rare are mornings that are happy inside.
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Ainkurunuru is a collection of five hundred poems written by five different poets who lived two thousand years before. It tells you the story of the lovers, their sadness, joy, jealousies, and quarrels in verses of breathtaking sophistication and indirection. It is about the art and life of a people almost irretrievably lost, found in palm script, and restored by scholars in love with the Tamil language.
11) Nocturnal Nomad
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At my Birthday party their presence was rife With a profusion of gifts and cheers All wished for more years to my Life; No one wished for more life to my years The above Poem which features in the book in your hands speaks about the need to enrich ones life. It should be the endeavour of one and all to live life more fully than one did in the moment before. One can do this by being with nature, going for hikes, listening to music and reading poetry....
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This volume contains the selected poems in French translation of two major modern Assamese poets - Nilmani Phookan and Hiren Bhattacharyya. The poems are selected for their universal appeal. The translator Binod Kumar Gogoi has taken utmost care to keep the meaning of the original text. Nilmani Phookan has been influenced by the French symbolist, and by the Anglo-American imagist poets. Phookans poetry is rooted in Assamese culture and replete with...
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This is the first book of English poems of the new poet written for the international readers. He has often been obsessed by the myriad facets of life, particularly the sad and sordid ones, which continually torment him. He cannot forget the pain emanating from his inner soul, reminding him of his ineffective poetic urge to remedy some of the ills inflicting mankind as a whole. He is often haunted by a traditional saying or universal wisdom or a catchy...
14) Open Skies
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Open Skies is a collection of poems by Ms Sushma Sagar, an Indian. Hers is a voice that speaks of everyday phenomena in lyrical, evocative verse. These are poems that will touch a chord in your heart, and leave you to ponder the deeper meaning of life, and make you aware of the significance of human existence in the unfolding Cosmic scheme of things. Simply written poetry, meant to be understood with ease.
15) Evening Delights
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The poems in Evening Delights are the expression of the poets love of nature, love of man and the celebration of life. Commenting on his poems in Hindi, Atal Behari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India and a renowned poet said that almost all the poems depicted nature in an attractive manner. Man and nature in the poets view are inseparable, interdependent and affectionately related. While the poet captures the beauty of everyday world of nature...
16) Pendulum
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Joy. Anguish. Smile. Tears. Inspirations. Decadence. Love. Apathy. Peace. Chaos. Pendulumit is of life.
17) The Messenger
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The Messenger is poetry that fills the voids of imaginative prose. It talks about man and his existence. It talks about Love and one's beloved in relation to the universe. The Messenger relates every element of common existence with love and freedom, and takes you to the different journey of love. It talks about Autumn, Soil, stones, love, galaxies, and every natural entity that inspires one to fall in love
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Nascent Wingsa Poetic Endeavor is a unique collection of selected poems based on different themes. This book offers its readers a platter of various flavours of poetry. From serious societal issues to the tender nature of love, from motivational verses to simple experiences, this book is a holistic entity of significant poetry.
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Shades of Life is a bouquet of poems which the poet wants you to experience and get sensitized. This book contains fifty-two poems for fifty-two weeks, each poem celebrating a different shade of life. Happiness, joy, anguish, sorrow, success, failure, love, rejection, romance, friendship, betrayal, and expectations are some of the emotions beautifully expressed in the poems. The fascination of the poet with nature will sway you to fall in love with...
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The Verses of Life is a compilation of motivational verses written in very simple language with the purpose of touching the lives of the masses. Life has undergone a major change. People today only live for themselves. And this has given rise to self-ego resulting in selfishness, wherein people only care about themselves. Simplicity and sharing have taken a backseat. This results in unhappiness and stress. Through the inspirational verses, which have...
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