To think of Magadh only as a poetry collection would be a gross underestimation of the ambition and seething rage of Shrikant Verma’s poetry. In their simple yet sharp rendition into English by Rahul Soni, these poems look like plain, unadorned ruminations about Magadh and the other Mahajanapadas around it. For such monarchies to survive, he argues, dissolution of thought …
Published : Jul 13, 2023 11:00 IST - 7 MINS READ Assume, for the sake of argument, that you live in a “flawed democracy” ruled by a behemoth of a political party which employs a person whose prime job is to create and spread propaganda on a daily basis. And yet, some 40 years ago when Shrikant Verma, Congress spokesperson, …
