2. OBJECTIVES
•To enhance the ability of students to grasp hidden
meaning.
•To help student in acquiring the competence of poetic
devices.
•To understand life of english poets of India.
5. RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Born on 7th may 1861 in
Kolkata.Tagore was already
writing poems at age of eight.As
a author of Gitanjali.He was first
Non European who was awarded
the Nobel Prize for literature in
1913 .
7. ARUNDHATI ROY
• Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian
novelist, activist and a world citizen. She won the Booker
Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things.
• Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian
Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter
by profession. She spent her childhood in Aymanam, in
Kerala, schooling in Corpus Christi. She left Kerala for
Delhi at age 16, and embarked on a homeless lifestyle,
staying in a small hut with a tin roof within the walls of
Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla and making a living selling empty
bottles. She then proceeded to study architecture at the
Delhi School of Architecture, where she met her first
husband, the architect Gerard Da Cunha.
9. DILIP CHITRE• Dilip Chitre 71 years old died on 10 December,
2009 around 3:30 a.m suffering from cancer for
over five years. Dilip Chitre was one of the
foremost Indian writers and critics to emerge in
the post Independence era. Apart from being a
very important bilingual writer, writing in
Marathi and English, he was also a painter and
filmmaker.
• Born in the erstwhile princely state of Baroda
(Gujarat) in September 1938, Chitre published his
first collection of poems at the age of 22.
• His well-known works include “Ekun Kavita”, a
collection of poems in Marathi, and “Travelling in
the Cage” in English..
11. SALMAN RUSHDIE
• Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on
19 June 1947. He went to school in Bombay and at
Rugby in England, and read History at King's College,
Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Footlights
theatre company. After graduating, he lived with his
family who had moved to Pakistan in 1964, and worked
briefly in television before returning to England,
beginning work as a copywriter for an advertising
agency. His first novel, Grimus, was published in 1975.
13. ARUN KOLATKAR
• अरुण बालकृ ष्ण कोलटकर)
(November 1, 1932 - September 25, 2004) was
a poet from Maharashtra, India. Writing in
both Marathi and English, his poems found
humor in many everyday matters. His poetry
had an influence on modern Marathi poets. His
first book of English poetry, Jejuri, is a
15. SAROJINI NAIDU
• Sarojini Chattopadhyay was born at
Hyderabad on February 13, 1879 the
eldest of a large family, all of whom
were taught English at an early age.
At the age of twelve she passed the
Matriculation of the Madras
University, and awoke to find herself
famous throughout India.
17. NISSIM EZEKIEL
• Ezekiel was born on 14 December 1924 in Bombay
(Maharashtra). His father, Moses Ezekiel, was a professor of
botany at Wilson College, and his mother was principal of her
own school. The Ezekiels belonged to Mumbai's Jewish
community, known as the 'Bene Israel' . In 1947, Ezekiel earned
an BA in Literature from Wilson College, Mumbai, University
of Mumbai. In 1947-48, he taught English literature and
published literary articles. After dabbling in radical politics for a
while, he sailed to Uganda in November 1948. He studied
philosophy at Birkbeck College. After a three and a half years
stay, Ezekiel worked his way home as a deck-scrubber aboard a
ship carrying arms to Indochina.
19. KEKI DARUWALA
• Keki Nasserwanji Daruwalla was born in Lahore (now
in Pakistan), in 1937. His father N.C. Daruwalla, was
an eminent professor, who taught in Government
College Lahore. After the Partition, his family left
Punjab while his elder brother stayed back, and moved
to Junagadh in Gujarat, then to
Rampur[disambiguation needed]. As a result he grew
up studying in various schools and mediums and
started writing short stories in school.