These 5 Indian woman poets will blew your mind…
When it comes to poetry, India is the land of poets where every artist is born with a little wagic wand in his hand that is the almighty pen and goes on to change the world with it.
But we all have read the work of Rabindranath Tagore, Ruskin Bond, Chetan Bhagat but most of us are left stumped when it comes to rejoicing some of the work done by our great women poets.
After reading this, I hope you will get a clear view of how talented these woman poets were….
Sarojini Naidu
She is purposely known as nightingale of India. Being the first female governor of an Indian state her poems were melodic style.
Some of her great writings include A golden threshhold and The feather of Dawn.
The new hath come and now the old retires:
And so the past becomes a mountain-cell,
Where lone, apart, old hermit-memories dwell
In consecrated calm, forgotten yet
Of the keen heart that hastens to forget
Old longings in fulfilling new desires”- from Past and Future, Sarojini Naidu
Kamala Suraya
She was known as Madhavi Das was an english poetess. At time when very few had the courage to speak up she was the one who raise her voice against women sexuality.
Her famous poetry includes Summer in Calcutta and The descendants.
Don’t write in English, they said, English is
Not your mother-tongue.Why not leave
Me alone, critics, friends, visiting cousins,
Every one of you? Why not let me speak in
Any language I like? The language I speak,
Becomes mine, its distortions, its queernesses
All mine, mine alone.” – from An Introduction, Kamala Das.
Balamani Amma
Famous Indian poetess who wrote in Malyanam.
She was highly respected and known as “ poetess of Motherhood". Without having any formal education she just got the experiences while spending time with his uncle books.
“Your grandmother knows
Nothing is destroyed
Everything exists in human forever
In my old heart there are
so much of riches, still
for your hands too
to play with.” – a translation of Muthassi, Balamani Amma.
Mira Bai
She was a 16th century Hindu poet and a devotee of lord krishna.
She is recognized as one of the best faces in the Bhakti movement happened in India. Her love is shown through the poems she write and her thoughts of love are always urging to be penned down on the pages of her heart.
“I am mad with love
And no one understands my plight.
Only the wounded
Understand the agonies of the wounded,
When the fire rages in the heart.” – a translated version of I am mad with love, Mirabai
Amrita pritam
She wrote in punjabi and hindi.she was a prominent punjabi novelists. She was the winner of Sahateya Akademi Award for her poems Sunehade.
The first woman to do this and spanning career of six decades seems ecstatic.
Some of her popular works are pinjar(a novel) .
When the body perishes
all perishes
but the threads of memory
are woven of enduring atoms
I will pick these particles
weave the threads
and I will meet you yet again.” – Amrita Pritam.
