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Poetry of India 15/100: Rabindranath Tagore’s “The Golden Boat” and the Mystery of Loss

Part 15 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through India’s poetic heritage.Rabindranath Tagore’s Bengali poem often translated as “The Golden Boat” presents a speaker, a harvest and a boat that can carry away the gathered grain but not the speaker. The scene becomes an image of impermanence: labour produces something valuable, yet the worker may remain separated from the fruits of that labour…

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Poetry of India 12/100: Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s Madhushala and the Tavern of Life

Part 12 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through India’s poetic heritage.Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s Madhushala is a landmark of modern Hindi poetry, built around recurring images of the tavern, cup, drink and cupbearer. These images can suggest pleasure, mortality, equality, spiritual searching and the desire to escape rigid divisions. The work’s repeated structure makes it memorable in recit…

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