tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post1859695133234605086..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: Amitabh Mitra draws and writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-55571104567226659462015-09-09T18:27:45.535-07:002015-09-09T18:27:45.535-07:00Dear Duane 'Poetree' is a registered trade...Dear Duane 'Poetree' is a registered trademarkDelhi Poetreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17567520458342035769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-62533561072804947992015-09-08T03:31:15.992-07:002015-09-08T03:31:15.992-07:00Who is Duane Amitabh Mitra sahibWho is Duane Amitabh Mitra sahibDelhi Poetreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17567520458342035769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-25563728077223386932015-09-07T10:57:44.575-07:002015-09-07T10:57:44.575-07:00Many thanks Professor Vorhees, You have brought Gw...Many thanks Professor Vorhees, You have brought Gwalior to an international audienceAmitabh Mitrahttp://www.amitabhmitra.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-33577337436898754822015-09-06T23:37:52.420-07:002015-09-06T23:37:52.420-07:00Amitabh Mitra claims that this "is a love poe...Amitabh Mitra claims that this "is a love poem connecting to my hometown, Gwalior," in Madya Pradesh, 319 km south of Delhi. Its most prominent feature is Gwalior Fort, "the Gibraltar of India," built by Man Singh Tomar on the site of an earlier structure. The earliest reference to a fort there dates to 525. It features Chinese dragons on the Indian-style pillars. The Mughal emperor Babur called it "the pearl in the necklace of the forts of Hind."<br />Mamta Kalia is the niece of Bharat Bushan Agrawal, a prominent Progressive poet, and the wife of avant garde Hindi writer Ravindra Kalia. She began writing poems in English and published two volumes in the 1970s, but was informed that "No one reads your bastard English in India." So she began to write in Hindi instead. She is, according to Amitabh, one of "the very few in India who could write with great creativity both in English and Hindi."<br />A gali is a narrow pedestrian alleyway (or a mountain path); qawwalis are a form of Sufi devotional music dating back to the late 13th century, when Amir Khusro Dehlavi fused Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Indian musical traditions.DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com