{"id":3019,"date":"2018-02-18T23:39:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T07:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2021-01-12T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T06:05:21","slug":"3019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"My poem Kalli in 100 Great Indian Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much-awaited new poetry anthology <em>1<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">00 Great Indian Poems<\/span><\/em> is finally published (by Bloomsbury) and ready for orders. The poems were selected from the Indian poetry written over 3000 years in 27 languages. From Punjabi, my poem &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Kalli<\/span>&#8221; is included along with Surjit Patar\u2019s &#8220;My Poem&#8221;. A poem by Amrita Pritam, could not be included because of copyright issues. Another poet of Punjabi origin, Gulzar, is also included though he doesn\u2019t write in Punjabi. The anthol<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ogy is in English and includes selections from the Vedas and the Upanishads and several other classics. The 100 poets include Kalidasa, Mirza Ghalib, Mir Taqi Mir, Rabindranath Tagore, Kabir, Amir Khusrau, Mirabai, Jayanta Mahapatra, Kunwar Narain, Dilip Chitre, Mangalesh Dabral, Keki Daruwalla, K. Satchidanandan, Namdeo Dhasal and other modern poets including Abhay k. who is also the editor of the anthology -salute to Abhay\u2019s monumental undertaking. The anthology is already on the best-seller list of <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.in%2F&amp;h=ATMutueSze1a-N2oNTdBQEzp3tviYS40swPtaRPtM-LACBlp2DOnQU_TbMq52MbJaZlaF-SRRgjJh83AzmV0cVDDso57p-w69cDzpHAc7PWskmnSujJZWvzXzgeiYvQ3Els0wbe64gVDkpEL46_mFwU6YrR3stENTNrPJDxjvNvScnRAUycGsFjdMRtYo2om9bG8z9BJU6-mlrpjrehgH33K7geCgXOBx-CcdTzUkFRlbJrvrY59iBVhrPrznhJhV7OtYV7shgzzaVc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-lynx-mode=\"origin\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;-U&quot;}\">www.amazon.in.<\/a> It\u2019s not yet available outside India. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>&#8220;Abhay K. Is a master anthologist who is superb at picking accessible poems that will reach the general reader.&#8221;- Nicholas Birns, New York University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a new ratnamala -a treasury of gems -of Indian poems from across the centuries. A delight.\u201d Rachel Dayer, University of London.<a href=\"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/?attachment_id=2993\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2993\" src=\"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/100-Great-Indian-Poems.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/100-Great-Indian-Poems.jpg 420w, https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/100-Great-Indian-Poems-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/100-Great-Indian-Poems-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-awaited new poetry anthology 100 Great Indian Poems is finally published (by Bloomsbury) and ready for orders. The poems were selected from the Indian poetry written over 3000 years in 27 languages. From Punjabi, my poem &#8220;Kalli&#8221; is included along with Surjit Patar\u2019s &#8220;My Poem&#8221;. A poem by Amrita Pritam, could not be included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry","h-as-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}