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Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the eminent poets of international repute hailed from Odisha. His writings always emit local flavor and savor. In this way, the poet globalizes is own cultures and traditions which have got its universal acceptance. The socio-cultural aspects of Odisha the poet immortalizes through his poems which are generally escaped from the common man's vision. The simple language of Mahapatra's poetry contains the most complex syntactical meanings leaving the reader wanders and wonders that is his uniqueness as a poet. Some of the eminent works are Close the Sky Ten by Ten, A Father's Hours, A Rain of Rites, Waiting, The False Start, Relationship, Door of Paper, Green Gardener, Bali(The Victim), Wings of the Past: Poems, A Time of Rising, I Can, But Why Should I Go. Jayanta Mahapatra can be called the major voice among the second generation of the modern poets . The Sahitya Akademi Award given for the first time to an Indian English poet, commended his po

A. K. Ramanujan was a poet, translator, folklorist,and philologist. He is essentially a poet of memory who shows an intense preoccupation with the past which makes his poetry not only a poetry of the self but also of family history and cultural history. In fact, poetry in the hands of Ramanujan becomes a vehicle of the criticism of the self and of the world around him. We find the later Ramanujan a very different poet especially with his Buddhist acceptance of change as the only continuity and with his confession of violent emotions, sexual desire in particular. Ramanujan wrote both in English and Kannada, and his poetry is known for its thematic and formal engagement with modernist transnationalism. Issues such as hybridity and transculturation figure prominently in prominently in such collections as The Striders, Selected Poems, and Second Sight . "A. K. Ramanujan" (1995) received a Sahitya Akademi Award after the author's death. As a scholar, Ramanujan contributed

Dom Moraes, a prodigy of poetic talent, began writing poems at the age of twelve and won the Hawthornden Prize when only eighteen. Dom Moraes sees himself essentially as an Indian. What distinguishes him from other Indian poets writing in English is, as Professor S.Nagarjan puts it, "... a powerful organic sensibility, a skillful use of metrical and non-metrical verse  patterns, compressed but still lucid imagery and a remarkable ability to create an unusual mood, atmosphere or an  un-nameable emotion". He was editor, essayist, biographer, and inveterate traveler who was one of the best -known English language poets of India. For his work 'A Beginning' won him the Hawthornden Prize for the " best work of imagination ."Some of his other collections are John Nobody, Absences, and Collected Poems. He is also noted for his autobiography and biography of Sunil Gavaskar . For some time he was famous for the Coffee Table Books such as Indira Gandhi and Gone Awa