Discourses on Contemporary Indian English Poets

Contents: Preface. 1. Indian English poetry after 1960: some reflections/P.C. Prem. 2. Nissim Ezekiel: the father of modernity in Indian English poetry/K.V. Dominic. 3. Culturally speaking: Nissim Ezekiel/P. Dhishna. 4. Swallows fly tame: Kamala Das’s journey to womanhood/Hyacinth Pink. 5. Feminism and Kamala Das/Shubha Mukherjee. 6. Jayanta Mahapatra: a true bard to his rots/Satendra Kumar. 7. The still sad music of (Indianity): pluralist identity and socio cultural non specificity in Jayanta Mahapatras Random Descent/S.K. Prathap. 8. Syed Ameeruddins poetry in quest of the beyond/Aju Mukhopadhyay. 9. Vision and Verve: Syed Ameeruddins visioned Summits and visions of deliverance/Masoodul Hassan. 10. The paradigm of paradox: a study of Shiv K. Kumars losing my way/D.C. Chambial. 11. Erotic consciousness in the poetry of Shiv K. Kumar and R.K. Singh: a comparative study/Jindagi Kumari and Rajni Singh. 12. Mothers Lap by I.K. Sharma: a study in text/D.C. Chambial. 13. Towards maturation and crystallization: a study of D.C. Chambials poetry/V.V.B. Rama Rao. 14. Odyssey of time in the poetry of Pronab Kumar Majumder/P.V. Laxmi Prasad. 15. Portrait of an artist as a poet: grasping the grammar of Dilip Chitre in As is Where is/Hemang A. Desai. 16. Philosophical flavour in Manas Bakshis The Midnight Star/P.V. Laxmi Prasad. 17. Aju Mukhopadhyays poetry: spectra of nature, beauty and spirituality/Shujaat Hussain. 18. Universality of Hazara Singhs poems/S. Kumaran. Index.