This Post is long due… because I had met MNN Chettan (Madassery Neelankandan Namboothiri) two months back to receive a copy of his translations of the Malayalam’s beloved poet Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri… I have been close to MNN Chettan for… Read More ›
A drunk, embroiled, bleeding will that imposed itself on constellations, on the world’s secret, is blazing in my generation’s heart. Fettering the free, festive air, with a strict hand. The sun and the deeps are wheel horses on its farm…. Read More ›
I write poetry, gentlemen, I write poetry, but please don’t call me poetess; I swig my wine like the bricklayers do and I have an assistant who talks to herself. This world’s a strange place; things happen, gentlemen, that I… Read More ›
Too bad for you men who don’t notice that my eyes remember slings and black flags which murder with each blink of my Mississipi lashes Too bad for you men who do not see who do not see anything not… Read More ›
Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984), was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in… Read More ›
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet-diplomat and writer. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990… Read More ›
Seo Jeong-ju (May 18, 1915 – December 24, 2000) was a Korean poet and university professor who wrote under the pen name Midang. He is widely considered as one of the best poets in twentieth-century Korean literature. He was nominated… Read More ›
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) MBE, NI, Lenin Peace Prize was an influential left-wing intellectual, revolutionary poet, and one of the most highly-regarded poets of the Urdu language, having been nominated four times for the… Read More ›
Vinod Narayan 