Dr. Alka Nigam

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        • The Colorful World Of Women In Poetry “We Are Learning To Make Fire”
        • T.S Eliot And Modern Hindi Poets
        • F T Prince’s: The Wind In The Tree: An Analysis
        • The Black World of Nikki Giovanni
        • Hindu Thought in the Poetry of Tennyson
        • Out of Our Prisons We Emerge
        • Remembering Prince
        • “NO MORE MASKS”: The Poetry Of Kamala Das
        • “Writing like a Woman,”: The poetry of Jean Arasanayagam
        • Poets At Work
      • Newspaper
        • Mystical Power Of Vedic Mantras
        • Shiv As Ardhnarishwar
        • Bhartihari—The King, Poet and Renunciate
        • Planet Earth Has A Key To Our Spiritual Growth
        • Only Deshi English please! This is BHU
        • Silence Makes Longevity Possible
        • Spiritual Significance of Ashtavakra Gita
        • The Eighteen Puranas
        • A Drop Reveals the Ocean
        • The New Women Poets
        • Four Mahavakayas, Essence of the Upanishads
        • Are We Still in Kaliyuga?
        • Modern Problem Ancient Solution
        • English Poets And Advaita Vedanta
        • The Ghats of Banaras
        • Banarasi Babu
        • Aesthetic Dimensions of Eastern UP
        • Truth, Shiva And Beauty
        • Varanasi’s dirt is India’s dirt
        • Glamorization of Religion
        • Ignite the Change
        • Singing Angels
        • Whispering Woods
        • Relevance of Patanjali Yoga in Today’s Life
    • Reviews
      • Shooting The Floricans
      • Confessional Poetry of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton
      • The Outsider
      • Gaze of the Inner Eye
    • Books
      • F.T. Prince: A Study of his Poetry
    • Poems
      • Sati
      • Without You
      • अभिशप्त
      • अस्तित्वहीन
      • Saamana
      • Pataashap ke Poorva
      • Glory And Shame
  • Gallery
    • Inaugural F.T. Prince Memorial Lecture
    • International Conference on Tennyson
    • Dept of English, Arts Faculty
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Aesthetic Dimensions of Eastern UP

January 16, 2017 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

Development of Eastern UP Pioneer Saturday: Dec 31, 1988   Uttar Pradesh has a world of its own and is the nerve centre and soul of India. Nature has lavished her with hills and fields and bestowed upon her the choicest gifts in the form of rivers—Ganga, Yamuna and Ghagra. History has left its indelible […]

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Banarasi Babu

January 16, 2017 by Dr. Alka Nigam 1 Comment

Times of India   You going boat ride. OK come. No talk here. People watching. Golden temple, Kedar temple famous. Lots tourists com­ing. Season off now. Winter season coming. (Boatman). Varanasi ancient city, Sir. Very very old. Varuna plus Assi jointed both called Varanasi. (Guide). Bijjaness is OK in Banaras. Here your tea is coming. […]

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“Writing like a Woman,”: The poetry of Jean Arasanayagam

January 3, 2017 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

COMMONWEALTH Essays and Studies Dijon France Vol. 15, N 2, Spring 1993 Sylvia Plath’s poetry suffers from the consciousness of neurosis and the feeling of “damnation on this earth”, the poetry of Nikki Giovanni fights with the most abysmal evil in the world, the poetry of Jean Arasanayagam in “mournful melodies” struggles with both the […]

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“NO MORE MASKS”: The Poetry Of Kamala Das

January 3, 2017 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

Points of View Volume VIII Number 1 Summer 2001 ISSN 0971-605X Editor K K Sharma Lovers of the poetry of Kamala Das are puzzled. What forced her to change her name and her religion? The reasons she has given in her interviews are not convincing because they are coming form a personality who till now […]

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English Poets And Advaita Vedanta

December 31, 2016 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

Alka Nigam July 16 2014: The Times of India (Delhi) http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=THE-SPEAKING-TREE-English-Poets-And-Advaita-Vedanta-16072014020064   Literature is also philosophy. Though some critics differ, there are innumerable literary examples of visionary poets revealing primeval truths. These poetic revelations are universal spiritual truths to which no one person, age or religion can lay exclusive claim. Of a radically different milieu […]

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