‘Random Readings With Kumar Vikram’ gives space to all kinds of authors-major, minor, new ones, old and forgotten ones, also those under the making!! It is a purely non-commercial podcast started for the sheer love of books! Season I Episodes bring readings in English , Season II brings Episodes in Hindi. Kumar Vikram, is a publishing editor of 25 years standing, and author of three books—‘Short Essays’ (2002), ‘T S Eliot: An Intensive Study of Selected Poems’ (2005; Co-author with Prof. Arun Kumar Sinha), the latest being ‘Men’s Lib and Other Literary, Cultural and Personal Essays’ (2023).
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‘Random Readings With Kumar Vikram’ gives space to all kinds of authors-major, minor, new ones, old and forgotten ones, also those under the making!! It is a purely non-commercial podcast started for the sheer love of books! Season I Episodes bring readings in English , Season II brings Episodes in Hindi. Kumar Vikram, is a publishing editor of 25 years standing, and author of three books—‘Short Essays’ (2002), ‘T S Eliot: An Intensive Study of Selected Poems’ (2005; Co-author with Prof. Arun Kumar Sinha), the latest being ‘Men’s Lib and Other Literary, Cultural and Personal Essays’ (2023).
Reading of Text and Poems from ‘Indian English Women Poets’ by Anisur Rahman And Ameena Kazi Ansari
Random Readings With Kumar Vikram
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2 years ago
Reading of Text and Poems from ‘Indian English Women Poets’ by Anisur Rahman And Ameena Kazi Ansari
Today I bring to you readings from a very special and significant study titled ‘Indian English Women Poets’ compiled and edited and with an introduction by Prof Anisur Rahman and Prof Ameena Kazi Ansari; and published in 2009 by Creative Books, New Delhi.
This study has 625 pages or so and has, besides the introduction, critical essays, interviews, readers’ response, poetspeak, and a selection of 20 poems each of six poets, namely, Kamla Das, Lakshmi Kannan, Debjani Chatterjee, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Shanta Acharya, and Smita Agarwal. It also has a comprehensive bibliography on Indian English Women Poets from 1876-2006 compiled by Shyamala A Narayan.
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This episode has three segments
In the first segment, I read the Preface, in the second segment, some excerpts from the Introduction are read, and in the last segment one poem each of the poets mentioned above as included in this volume are brought to you.
Random Readings With Kumar Vikram
‘Random Readings With Kumar Vikram’ gives space to all kinds of authors-major, minor, new ones, old and forgotten ones, also those under the making!! It is a purely non-commercial podcast started for the sheer love of books! Season I Episodes bring readings in English , Season II brings Episodes in Hindi. Kumar Vikram, is a publishing editor of 25 years standing, and author of three books—‘Short Essays’ (2002), ‘T S Eliot: An Intensive Study of Selected Poems’ (2005; Co-author with Prof. Arun Kumar Sinha), the latest being ‘Men’s Lib and Other Literary, Cultural and Personal Essays’ (2023).
