Tag: Poet
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Eminent Kannada poet Nissar Ahmed passes away
Born on February 5, 1936, at Devanahalli on the city's northern outskirts, Ahmed was a prolific writer in Kannada and penned poems, plays, short stories and novels.
May 3, 2020 -
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters recites Aamir Aziz’s ‘Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega’
Aziz is a writer, actor, and musician with a degree in civil engineering.
February 27, 2020 -
Veteran broadcaster, academic-poet Obaid Siddiqui passes away
Born in Meerut in 1957, Siddiqui received higher education a the Aligarh Muslim University and joined the All India Radio at Srinagar station in 1988.
January 10, 2020 -
Meysam: The artist in exile
The pen is a recurrent motif of Meysams paintings and cartoons and it appears in different shapes and sizes. For him, it is not merely a symbol of liberty and freedom of expression he jealously guards, but also a weapon with which he wants to fight injustice.
December 29, 2018 -
Mamata remembers Dwijendralal Ray on his 105th death anniversary
"Our Govt is setting up Dhano Dhanyo Bhavan – a cultural complex of international standard – as a mark of respect to him", added Mamta Banerjee.
May 17, 2018 -
Deepika Padukone’s tryst with verse when she was in Class 7
Bollywood diva Deepika Padukone has many feathers to her cap. She started as a sportsperson to become country’s leading actress. Apart from being a great dancer, there is a poet too in her, it has emerged. The Padmaavat actress had penned down an emotional and inspirational poem when she was in Class 7. Titled ‘I …
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February 21, 2018 -
Google India honours poet Kamala Das legacy with doodle
Google India on Thursday celebrated the work and life of author poet Kamala Das by releasing a doodle, coincided with the anniversary of the publication of her autobiography ‘My Story’, which was originally published in 1976. Kamala Surayya was born on 31 March 1934 in Kerala and was popularly known by her (one-time) name Madhavikutty …
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February 1, 2018 -
Tribute to the passionate rebel poet
One of the most remarkable additions to West Bengal’s cultural and archival cauldron is the recent opening of a beautifully curated and orchestrated digital archive of and on the works of poet-musician-lyricist-actor Kazi Nazrul Islam. The West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited the initiative to set up Nazrul Tirtha to provide an institutional set …
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January 6, 2018 -
Eminent Urdu poet Anwar Jalapuri dies at 71
Eminent Urdu poet Anwar Jalalpuri, also known for his translation of the Bhagavad Gita from Hindi to Urdu, passed away here on Tuesday following cardiac arrest, a hospital official said. He was 71. Jalalpuri was admitted to the trauma centre of King George’s Medical University (KGMU) here on December 28 following a brain stroke, the …
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January 2, 2018 -
No saint no sinner!
A biography of Osho's first disciple, Laxmi, is an illustration of how to deal with life's adversities.
December 20, 2017 -
Where poetry is passion and not profession
At a time when the English publishing industry is booming in the country, writers in Indian languages claim that it is difficult for them to make a living through writing alone. But this has neither subdued their interest nor do they ever plan to quit writing, even if that means writing for a single reader. …
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August 3, 2017 -
Honouring the Bard
Rabindranath Tagore defied death by transcending time and making his way eternally into the hearts of all Bengalis. Knowing the infinity of this legend, makes his beginning even more interesting to relate. Tagore was born the youngest in 1861, the ninth of 13 children, to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. As a manager of the …
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May 3, 2017 -
Appreciating life
Even when life has such extravagance and exuberance to offer, we lay submerged into the ocean of nothingness, desperately searching for truth, honesty and simplicity. We must stop to ask ourselves the question-”Where are we heading to?” In the rush of our mundane lives, we are forgetting to appreciate our existence and our dreams. We …
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April 26, 2017