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| Padmaja Iyengar-Paddy |
‘GURUDEV’ RABINDRANATH TAGORE...
To an ever-grateful Indian nation he gave,
An evocative National Anthem so patriotic,
Sublime, enlightening, aesthetic and poetic!
The first ever Indian to win a Nobel prize,
For Gitaanjali that touched literary highs,
‘Gurudev’ was a master of many fine arts,
His music and painting won many hearts.
He founded the Viswa Bharati University,
At Santi Niketan, that promoted diversity.
Satyajit Ray and Amartya Sen are its alumni,
Though lately, it has earned some calumny.
As a proud Indian, this is my humble homage
To ‘Gurudev’, multi-faceted beyond compare.
BIO: Padmaja
Iyengar-Paddy, formerly a senior banker and an urban governance consultant, is
currently President, Connecting Across Borders (CAB), and Vice President of
Poetry India International. Her maiden poetry collection ‘P-EN-CHANTS’ has been
recognized as a Unique Record of Excellence by the India Book of Records. Her
poetry collection “P-EN-CHANTS…Again” has recently been published. A recipient
of several awards for her poems and short stories, Paddy has compiled and
edited 6 international multilingual poetry anthologies of which ‘Amaravati
Poetic Prism’ 2016 to 2019 have been recognized by the Limca Book of Records
(Published by Coca Cola India) as “Poetry Anthology in Most Languages” besides
“WWW-Women, Wit & Wisdom”, an international multilingual poetry anthology
of women poets. Since 2019, Paddy is the Guest Editor for SETU’s Women’s
Special Edition for the month of March.
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