After 24 years, the popular old Hindi poem ‘Lathi lekar bhalu aaya, chhamm, chhamm, chhamm’ is set to be reintroduced in class 1 syllabus of over 1.15 lakh government-run primary schools of the state.
In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that lives and breathes the seasons, smells, and colours of the Indian ...