Before the poet was a poet
nothing was reworked:
not the smudge of ink on twelve sets of clothes
not the fearsome top berth on the train
not a room full of boxes and dull windows
not the...
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Hyderabad, India
Contributors: Sridala Swami
« Hyderbad translates to "Lion City," named after Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib and his lion like performances on the battlefield. »
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There’s a saying that goes: When the pupil is ready, the Master will appear. I don’t have a Master at whose feet I learnt to write poetry, but I knew, one day, that I was ready to write it. I think it began –... media_text
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In that older tradition, poets had the patronage of kings and queens. They belonged, sometimes, to a performative and oral tradition that lived within families, castes and communities – such as the traditional... media_text
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With technological and skills-oriented changes in the medical profession, graduating doctors today have little in the way of interpersonal skills or multidisciplinary perspectives regarding the human condition. With... media_text
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There’s a saying that goes: When the pupil is ready, the Master will appear. I don’t have a Master at whose feet I learnt to write poetry, but I knew, one day, that I was ready to write it. I think it began –... media_text
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—Title of a painting by Eric Fischl, Bedroom Scene #6, oil on linen, 2004. Back striped black, suit striped white media_text
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