CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -A unique initiative of poet-diplomat Abhay K., The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems, offers a treasury of poems, selected from over 3000 years of Indian poetry in 28 languages.

Detailed explanation-2: -K. Sorkar), Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (edited by Menka Shivdasani, published by Michael Rothenberg in 2004); Ten: The New Indian Poets (edited and selected by Jayanta Mahapatra and Yuyutsu Sharma, New Delhi/Jaipur: Nirala Publications).

Detailed explanation-3: -Ten Twentieth-century Indian Poets edited by R. Parthasarathy is no doubt a good venture, but it does not mean at all there were no poets. Sometimes we doubt it that the Indian poets venturing in English as modern poets would not have been so had we searched the probable talents destroyed.

Detailed explanation-4: -100 Great Indian Poems by Abhay K.

Detailed explanation-5: -Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831) is generally credited as being the first Indian poet in English. He was born in Calcutta and especially remarkable because he was Christian and reared among Eurasians who were closer to the British.