Live Poets' and Society
A few writers of verse [or worse] got together at the AASRA Resource Centre to share their lines at the Patna edition of The Poetry Meet initiated by Nihal Parasher.
Now I have been one of Nihal's fans and critics ever since he would pen verse when he was in high school, and he was quite under the influence of the Hindi poet Dinkar at the time.
It was a pleasant one and a half hour programme, and we were treated to poetry in English, Hindustani, Urdu, Hindi and Maithili. It was amazing how some of the young people who read out their poems were able to write with precision in English as well as Hindi/ Urdu. At the meet was a young lawyer who's a terrific poet and lyricist, and what a good singing vice!
Well, I wasn't so sure about love at first sight, until I experienced the poetry of a certain young man called Piyush Mishra ... his simple and lyrical renditions in Hindustani absolutely bowled us over.
Now I have been one of Nihal's fans and critics ever since he would pen verse when he was in high school, and he was quite under the influence of the Hindi poet Dinkar at the time.
It was a pleasant one and a half hour programme, and we were treated to poetry in English, Hindustani, Urdu, Hindi and Maithili. It was amazing how some of the young people who read out their poems were able to write with precision in English as well as Hindi/ Urdu. At the meet was a young lawyer who's a terrific poet and lyricist, and what a good singing vice!
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| NIHAL READING HIS POETRY AT THE 2008 AIDS CANDLELIGHT MEMORIAL |
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