Seshendra is colossus of modern Poetry.
His literature is a unique blend of the best of poetry and poetics.
His Homepage : Seshendra:Visionary Poet of the Millennium http://seshendrasharma.weebly.com presents essence / spirit of the millennium in powerful poetic style. Seshendra Sharma is one of the most outstanding minds of modern Asia. He is the foremost of the Telugu poets today who has turned poetry to the gigantic strides of human history and embellished literature with the thrills and triumphs of the 20th century. A revolutionary poet who spurned the pedestrian and pedantic poetry equally, a brilliant critic and a scholar of Sanskrit, this versatile poet has breathed a new vision of modernity to his vernacular.Such minds place Telugu on the world map of intellectualism. Readers conversant with names like Paul Valery, Gauguin, and Dag Hammarskjold will have to add the name of Seshendra Sharma the writer from India to that dynasty of intellectuals.
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Saatyaki, poet's son's Tribute to his beloved father on his 13th Anniversary
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Seshendra : Visionary Poet of the Millenium
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Crystallised Thought
Seshendra is not an individual but a movement. Excerpts from his letters entitled ‘In Defence of People & Poetry ‘carry his incisive views on the contemporary Indian scene of thought. The reader will find in these pages the multidimensional vision of the poet who has made a colossal impact on the intellectual scene of India.
He holds the view that ‘people & poetry ‘are defenceless in this country; both are exploited by all and sundry entirely for personal gains.
Thus arises the primary duty of the honest and the intellectual to rescue them and build once again their defences, resurrect living thought, and re-establish the genuine intellectual process of reason and enquiry. Only such of the excerpts from his letters are included in this volume which is relevant from this point of view. Names of those to whom these letters were addressed and passages of personal and private nature have been carefully removed. The material in this volume is of purely literary interest and concerns the topics of the present epoch.
This volume of letters reflect his thoughts on vital questions concerning the ‘people ‘and ‘poetry ‘he says ‘to rehabilitate poetry in this country , we have to first rehabilitate philosophy , the living contact with thought … man shattered to smithereens , must be reassembled by original hope to live again ‘-
References about Telugu poetry found in some of the letters are not a recent development in his thinking. As early as in April 1958 he addressed a letter to The Hindu with reference to J.B.S. Haldane on Telugu dated 27-04- 1958.
Ihttps://kinige.com/book/Letters+Of+Seshendra
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Crystallised Thought
Seshendra is not an individual but a movement. Excerpts from his letters entitled ‘In Defence of People & Poetry ‘carry his incisive views on the contemporary Indian scene of thought. The reader will find in these pages the multidimensional vision of the poet who has made a colossal impact on the intellectual scene of India.
He holds the view that ‘people & poetry ‘are defenceless in this country; both are exploited by all and sundry entirely for personal gains.
Thus arises the primary duty of the honest and the intellectual to rescue them and build once again their defences, resurrect living thought, and re-establish the genuine intellectual process of reason and enquiry. Only such of the excerpts from his letters are included in this volume which is relevant from this point of view. Names of those to whom these letters were addressed and passages of personal and private nature have been carefully removed. The material in this volume is of purely literary interest and concerns the topics of the present epoch.
This volume of letters reflect his thoughts on vital questions concerning the ‘people ‘and ‘poetry ‘he says ‘to rehabilitate poetry in this country , we have to first rehabilitate philosophy , the living contact with thought … man shattered to smithereens , must be reassembled by original hope to live again ‘-
References about Telugu poetry found in some of the letters are not a recent development in his thinking. As early as in April 1958 he addressed a letter to The Hindu with reference to J.B.S. Haldane on Telugu dated 27-04- 1958.
Ihttps://kinige.com/book/Letters+Of+Seshendra
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