Thinking in verse, thinking about poetry.

Don’t forget: enjoy the famous “paratha wali gali” (a delicious stuffed fried bread, with fresh creamy curd and home made pickles). The city of New Delhi still bears the influence of British colonial rule, also in its buildings and propensity for high tea. Uncover its scents and flavors through narrow alleyways and crowded backstreets. Here you can visit Hindu temples and the old-world walled. Its National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), was established on1954. Its collection includes works by many famous artists (such as Thomas Daniell and Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose and Amrita Sher-Gil. Here was born the poet Mohan Rana.

His vivid poems probe philosophical questions, through the everyday imagery made by stars and birds, but also by rain and shirts. His haunting poems have been beautifully rendered into English. Amongst the new generation of Hindi poets, his poetry it defies any categorisation. He really knows the difference between thinking in verse and thinking about poetry. For him, the poetic process is also thought process. He was born in a March day in Delhi, in 1964. Graduated in Humanities, MOHAN RANA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GjYpkaCvj Ehas published eight poetry collections in Hindi. His poems have been translated into Spanish and Italian, German, Dutch and Marathi. His poems offer an bridge between two cultures, with a sense of dislocation alongside a sense of place.

AFTER MIDNIGHT – I saw the stars far off. As far as I from them, in this moment I saw them in moments of the twinkling past time? Does the fish too drink water? Does the sun feel the heat? Does the light see the dark? Does the. In the boundless depths of darkness, these hours hunt the morning through the night. And I can’t make up my mind: am I living this life for the first time? Or repeating it, forgetting as I live the first moment of breath every rain too get wet? Do dreams ask questions about sleep as I do? I walked a long, long way and when I saw, I saw the stars close by. Today it rained all day long and the words were washed away from your face.

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