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Poetry of India 26/100: Bhanubhakta Acharya and the Nepali Ramayana Tradition

Part 26 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through South Asian poetry.Bhanubhakta Acharya is celebrated as a foundational figure in Nepali literature, especially for rendering the Ramayana into a form of Nepali accessible to a broad readership. His importance is not simply that he retold a famous epic. He helped demonstrate that a literary language used by ordinary people could carry major re…

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Poetry of India 14/100: Amrita Pritam’s “Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu” and the Wound of Partition

Part 14 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through India’s poetic heritage.Amrita Pritam’s Punjabi poem “Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu” is one of the most powerful literary responses to the violence and displacement of the 1947 Partition. The speaker addresses the eighteenth-century Punjabi poet Waris Shah, associated with the tragic love story of Heer and Ranjha, and asks him to rise and witness…

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