Varma is regarded as one of the founding poets of the Chhayavad, a romantic literary style in contemporary Hindi poetry and was honoured with all the major awards in Hindi literature during her ...

By pointing toward "the rare nests of vast birds," the poet hints toward an environment and a vanishing grandeur, making the poem relevant in the context of today's ecological crisis. ​In Alok ...

In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that lives and breathes the seasons, smells, and colours of the Indian ...

I recently studied Omprakash Valmiki’s poem Thakur Ka Kuan (1991) in its original Hindi text as part of my Diploma of Languages course at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. As a student ...