Sahitya Akademi publishes poem titled 'Monsoon'

Sahitya Akademi publishes poem titled 'Monsoon'

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Category : Miscellaneous Published on: March 18 2022

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  • On the occasion of its 68th anniversary, the Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters, published a book-length poem titled ‘Monsoon’, written by Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K.
  • Sahitya Akademi was established on March 12 in 1954.
  • The first President of Sahitya Akademi was Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.
  • The first book published by the Academy was Bhagwan Buddha by D.D. Koshambi in 1956.
  • Monsoon is a poem of 150 stanzas of 4 lines each (quatrain/ruba’i) that commences its journey in Madagascar and follows the path of the monsoon invoking the rich flora and fauna, languages, cuisine, music, monuments, landscapes, traditions, myths and legends of the places through which monsoon travels and acts as a messenger to carry the poet’s message from Madagascar to his beloved in Srinagar in the Himalayas.
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