Visionary
Poet of the Millennium
An Indian
poet Prophet
Seshendra
Sharma
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Seshendra
Sharma is one of the most outstanding minds of modern Asia. He is the foremost
of the Telugu poets today who has turned poetry to the gigantic strides of
human history and embellished literature with the thrills and triumphs of the
20th century. A revolutionary poet who spurned the pedestrian and
pedantic poetry equally, a brilliant critic and a scholar of Sanskrit, this
versatile poet has breathed a new vision of modernity to his vernacular. Such
minds place Telugu on the world map of intellectualism. Readers conversant with
names like Paul Valery, Gauguin, and Dag Hammarskjold will have to add the name
of Seshendra Sharma the writer from India to that dynasty of intellectuals.
Rivers and poets
Are veins and arteries
Of a country.
Rivers flow like poems
For animals, for birds
And for human beings-
The dreams that rivers dream
Bear fruit in the fields
The dreams that poets dream
Bear fruit in the people-
Are veins and arteries
Of a country.
Rivers flow like poems
For animals, for birds
And for human beings-
The dreams that rivers dream
Bear fruit in the fields
The dreams that poets dream
Bear fruit in the people-
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The sunshine of my thought
fell on the word
And its long shadow fell upon the century
Sun was playing with the early morning flowers
Time was frightened at the sight of the martyr-
And its long shadow fell upon the century
Sun was playing with the early morning flowers
Time was frightened at the sight of the martyr-
- Seshendra Sharma
B.A: Andhra Christian
College: Guntur: A.P: India
B.L: Madras University:
Madras
Deputy Municipal Commissioner
(37 Years)
Dept of Municipal Administration,
Government of Andhra Pradesh
Parents: G.Subrahmanyam (Father) ,
Ammayamma (Mother)
Siblings: Anasuya,Devasena (Sisters),Rajasekharam(Younger brother)
Wife: Mrs.Janaki Sharma
Children: Vasundhara , Revathi (Daughters),
Siblings: Anasuya,Devasena (Sisters),Rajasekharam(Younger brother)
Wife: Mrs.Janaki Sharma
Children: Vasundhara , Revathi (Daughters),
Vanamaali , Saatyaki (Sons)
Seshendra
Sharma better known as Seshendra is a
colossus of Modern Indian poetry.
His literature is a unique blend of the best of poetry and poetics.
Diversity and depth of his literary interests and his works
are perhaps hitherto unknown in Indian literature.
From poetry to poetics, from Mantra Sastra to Marxist Politics his writings bear an unnerving pprint of his rare genius.
His literature is a unique blend of the best of poetry and poetics.
Diversity and depth of his literary interests and his works
are perhaps hitherto unknown in Indian literature.
From poetry to poetics, from Mantra Sastra to Marxist Politics his writings bear an unnerving pprint of his rare genius.
His scholar ship and command over Sanskrit
, English and Telugu Languages has facilitated his emergence as a towering personality of comparative literature in the 20th
century world literature.
T.S.Eliot , Archbald Macleish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.
His sense of dedication to the genre of art he chooses to express himself and
the determination to reach the depths of subject he undertakes to explore
place him in the galaxy of world poets / world intellectuals.
T.S.Eliot , Archbald Macleish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.
His sense of dedication to the genre of art he chooses to express himself and
the determination to reach the depths of subject he undertakes to explore
place him in the galaxy of world poets / world intellectuals.
Seshendra’s eBooks : http://kinige.com/author/Gunturu+Seshendra+Sharma
Seshendra
Sharma’s Writings Copyright © Saatyaki S/o Seshendra Sharma
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Gunturu
Seshendra Sarma: an extraordinary poet-scholar
One of the ironies in
literature is that
he came to be known more as
a critic than a poet
HYDERABAD: An era of scholastic excellence and poetic
grandeur has come to an end in the passing away of Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, one
of the foremost poets and critics in Telugu literature. His mastery over
western literature and Indian `Alankara Sastra' gave his works a stunning
imagery, unparalleled in modern Indian works. One of the ironies in literature
is that he came to be known more as a critic than a poet. The Central Sahitya
Akademi award was conferred on him for his work `Kaala Rekha' and not for his
poetic excellence. The genius in him made him explore `Kundalini Yoga' in his
treatise on Ramayana in `Shodasi' convincingly. His intellectual quest further
made him probe `Naishadha Kaavya' in the backdrop of `Lalita Sahasra
Naamavali', `Soundarya Lahari' and `Kama Kala Vilasam' in `Swarna Hamsa',
Seshendra saw the entire universe as a storehouse of images and signs to which
imagination was to make value-addition. Like Stephene Mallarme who was
considered a prophet of symbolism in French literature, Seshendra Sarma too
believed that art alone would survive in the universe along with poetry. He
believed that the main vocation of human beings was to be artists and poets.
His `Kavisena Manifesto' gave a new direction to modern criticism making it a
landmark work in poetics. Telugus would rue the intellectual impoverishment
they suffered in maintaining a `distance' from him. Seshendra could have given
us more, but we did not deserve it! The denial of the Jnanpeeth Award to him
proves it
The Hindu
India's National Newspaper
Friday, Jun 01, 2007
