Poetry

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Notes

1 From a sequence, “Songs from Babylon and Persia”, written after the style of 2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE “public” puram poems in Old Tamil. Historical personages, kings and heroes were often named in the Tamil poems that were usually paeans to war.

  © 2007 Priya Sarukkai Chabria

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Anand Thakore

Anand Thakore is a Hindustani Classical Singer by profession, a disciple of Pandit Satyasheel Deshpande and Pandit Baban Haldankar. He has been writing poetry in English since his teens. “Waking in December” (Harbour Line, 2001) is his first collection of poems. He lives in Mumbai where he teaches and performs Hindustani vocal music. He is currently working on his second book of verse.

Priya Sarukkai Chabria

Priya Sarukkai Chabria is a poet and novelist whose works include The Other Garden (1995) and Dialogue and Other Poems (2005, reprinted 2006), the anthologies All Poetry is Protest (2006) and Open Spaces: 50 Poets 50 Poems (2007), and the Web site Talking Poetry India at ⟨www.openspaceindia.org⟩. Her new novel, a sci‐fi Generation 14, is due to be published this year. In February 2007 she curated The Image of the Writer in Literature for the Indian Academy of Literature. Her work is archived at sites such as Another Continent and HOW2.