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The blog November 2026
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"Coromandel Fishers" is a poem by Sarojini Naidu from The Golden Threshold (1905). At dawn, the fishermen call each other to wake up and sail out to sea, which they see as their mother, with the wind as their brother.
Introduction John Milton’s “On Shakespeare” is a powerful tribute to the Bard of Avon, written in 1630 and published in the Second Folio of Shakespeare’s works in 1632....
"Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S." is a comic poem by Nissim Ezekiel. A colleague gives a farewell speech for Miss Pushpa, who is going abroad, and praises her in typical Indian English: "Miss Pushpa is coming from very high family".
"Night of the Scorpion" is a poem by Nissim Ezekiel. One rainy night a scorpion stings the poet's mother.
Milton’s poem “On Time” tackles the unstoppable force of time. In it, time is depicted as a consuming, envious power that eventually faces its own undoing. While the...
"Blood" is a poem by Kamala Das, studied in RBSE Class 12 English. The poet remembers childhood visits to her family's old ancestral house and her great-grandmother's pride in the family's ancient blood.
Jayant Mahapatra is a towering figure in the landscape of Indian English poetry, his words echoing the cultural richness of Odisha and the complexities of the human experience....
Introduction to the Poem “The Wild Swans at Coole” is a reflective poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1919. The poem captures the beauty and mystery...
Introduction to the Poem “Kubla Khan” is a renowned poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1816. The poem describes the magnificent palace built by Mongol emperor Kubla...
Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist whose books explore women's lives within the family. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters (1998), won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the best first book in the Eurasia region.