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A literary feast of rich diversity

Booklovers surfing through the titles on display at the book exhibition that began in Vijayawada on Tuesday.

VIJAYAWADA: It was a thrilling stroll down the meandering lanes of life, enticing poetry-lovers to saunter through the journey. The Sahitya Akademi’s southern regional office, Bangalore, teamed up with the Siddhartha Kala Peetham, Vijayawada, to rejuvenate the charm of poetry as part of literary programmes organised for three days in a row, beginning Tuesday at Siddhartha auditorium.

The multi-lingual poets’ meet witnessed versifiers from different States congregating to unfold their poetic sensitivity.

A set of amateur poets, who have been penning down their emotions for the mere joy of it all, took a moment off their otherwise demanding schedules to feed the souls of those in love with literature. The passion-induced versus on myriad emotions of love, loss, pathos and stimulation touched hearts and warmed souls. Anand Junjurwad, a native of Mudhol in north Karnataka, works as a clerk in the judicial department. He also dabbles in poetry that blends tradition in contemporary situations.

His poems (in Kannada) gave the taste of folk tradition of north Karnataka, i.e. Lavani. The three Hindi poems he recited – Aadha roti, Shabd and Chod Dijiye Mujhe – were as inspiring as interesting.

G. Mohan Ramanan, a professor of English in the University of Hyderabad, calls himself ‘occasional poet’. “I use English language with great care attending to diction and syntax,” he said. Some of his creations were also satirical, particularly on social and academicals with a humorous twist. His poem Grills talked about his childhood in Kolkata, where he tries to weave a family history peeping from one side of the grills.

His second poem spoke about the chasm between the generation gone by and the one ruling the roost and the resultant tension.

The rapid pace of ecological degradation disturbs Anne Josephine, who writes poetry with a pen name Vaigai Selvi.

An employee of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, she recited Workaholic depicting the growing work pressure everywhere.

Her yet another innovative piece New World envisaged human beings being reduced to crawling creatures.

Kavita Vachaknavi’s Hindi poem Baarish ka pehla cheenta (first dash of rain) was all about the elixir of life dripping down from heavens. If her Main chal toh doon (I shall move on, but…) brought woman to the centre-stage, the poem Yudh, bachche aur maa (The war, the children and the mother) exposed the pain suffered by humanity on account of terrorism and jingoism.

A book exhibition on literary works of great writers marked the inaugural of the three-day event. Senior journalist Turlapaty Kutumba Rao was the chief guest, while Nagalla Guruprasad Rao presided over the inaugural session.

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