Biography of laishram samarendra baliarsingh
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Why is poetry emanating from Manipur so deeply entrenched in images of the bullet and the gun? Preetika Venkatakrishnan tries to find an answer
Why do the poetry anthologies edited by Ranjit Hoskote, Jeet Thayil and Eunice de Souza, which have now come to showcase contemporary Indian poetry in English, not feature even a single voice from Manipur?
Have we slighted regional writing in English while canonising mainstream poets who have turned solipsistic and failed to unravel what it means to be human in radical circumstances?
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Why was Irom Sharmila&#;s poetry from Manipur singled out by publishers in New Delhi to be published as an individual collection? With these uncomfortable questions in mind, when I travelled to Imphal in and met up with a few writers, observations made by two poets summed up for me the essential struggle taking place in the poetry of Manipur.
Moreover, they dramatised an experience quite alien to those writing from the mainland. On a drizzly, dank Ja
