KAVYA BHARATI
a review of Indian Poetry
Number 24, 2012
CONTENTS
Poetry
3 Just Wanted (Poem) Shanta Acharya
4 Poems S. A. Prabhakar
7 Poems M. Mohankumar
13 Poems Nandini Sahu
18 Poems Murali Sivaramakrishnan
21 Poems Mukesh Williams
31 Poems Asma Ladha
34 Being Indian (Poem) Rishan Singh
35 Poems Susheel Kumar Sharma
45 Poems Stanley Mohandoss Stephen
47 Poems Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
56 Poems Bini Sajil
61 Poems Annam Ragamalika
62 Poems P. Vijay Kumar
64 Poems Ranu Uniyal
66 Poems Joseph J. Puthumana
68 Poems Hutashan Vajpayi
72 Poems Rohith
74 Poems Kanwar Dinesh Singh
77 On a Lonely Night in Bhuj (Poem) Sridhar Rajeswaran
78 Poems Siddhartha Choudhary
80 Leopard (Poem) Vinodkumar Edachery
Translations
83 Poems (Tamil)
92 Nimajjanam (Poem in Malayalam)
93 Poems (Bengali)
95 Poems (Hindi)
97 Poems (Hindi)
100 Poems (Hindi)
102 Poems (Hindi)
104 Poems (Hindi)
Essays and Reviews
109 Jewish Identity in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel 135 Some Reflections on the Relevance of Rabindranath Tagore 146 A Contemporary Encrypted Narrative of Agha Shahid Ali 154 A Fellow Poet’s Perspective of T.R.Joy’s Brooding in a Wound 163 Trying to Say Goodbye 170 Kamala Das: Critical Perspectives 173 Ecological Criticism for Our Times 179 Adaptations from Ghalib 184 The Door Is Half Open 188 Everything Begins Elsewhere
Interview
195 Bibhu Padhi Interviewed
202 Contributors to This Issue 207 Submissions 208 NIRIEL 209 SCILET
Manushya Puthiran Sivakumar Ambalapuzha Anil Gharai Santosh Alex Badrinarayan Kedarnath Singh Prakash Rishab Dev Sharma
Usha Kishore
Neeti Singh
Sonjoy Dutta-Roy
Marilyn Noronha Arundhathi Subramaniam Ganesh Krishnamoorthy
A. Joseph Dorairaj Radhika P. Menon Radhika P. Menon Radhika P. Menon
Jaydeep Sarangi