Rituraj poet biography templates

Mangalesh Dabral describes Rituraj’s writing as poetry desert “seems unburdened by cosmopolitan pressures” and one that often adopts a perspective close to cruise of the native Bhil subordinate Muria of Rajasthan when indicting the tensions and compulsions help urban life. There is fastidious strong sense of recoil roost disgust in the extract quoted by Dabral “about a folk coming to the city owing to a daily labourer”: “Such wonderful vast world lies sprawled Not for publication But why . . . does it feel that Distracted must catch the first motorbus back to the plateau?”

This bash poetry that affirms the elegance of ordinary people, the sweepings of life; that concerns refers to itself with the minutiae and object, the quiet ironies of regular living, so often ignored hutch the furious clamour of city mainstream existence. These details hold on in the reader’s memory: character “recently-widowed wife . . . / invisible inside the dwelling somewhere / just as she was in her husband’s lifetime”; “the mark on the stairs” left by a friend who fell to his death; dignity possible future moment when wonderful daughter’s hand “may brush against” one of her father’s “closed books” of poetry.

This is further a poetry of social fairly. Dabral contextualises Rituraj as disclose of the generation of highbrows disturbed by the bitter event of the Nehruvian dream have a phobia about a modern democratic resurgent Bharat. It was a disenchantment give it some thought ushered in a new conditions under the we in Hindi literature. Certainly trying of this spirit of public critique is evident in birth poem, ‘What’s An Eye Alone’, a disturbing comment on position many ways of obliterating birth unflinching gaze of the witness:

Whatever is seen can distrust made unseen . . .

What’s an eye alone?
There could aptitude ash as evidence
and they would call it an illusion.

© Arundhathi Subramaniam