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drunk-poets-society · 4 years ago

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I mean ok, European classics were poetic and beautifully written but why are we sleeping on the vastly underrated genre which is Indian Classical Literature

Because look at these:

Excerpts from Abhijānaśākuntalam (The Recognition of Śhakuntalā) by Kālidāsa, trans. Chandra Rajan

Have you ever read such poetry

#literature #indian literature #indian classics #classics #Dark Academia #Light Academia #Romanticism #romantic era #poetry #poems #plays #classical literature #European classical literature #Indian Classical Literature #i have decided that I will share excerpts of all the ICL plays we do throughout my course because THESE DESERVE MORE RECOGNITION #you all say that DA and the Literature community is too Eurocentric so you BETTER give these the recognition they deserve #break away from the Eurocentrism of it there is so much more literature out there #take a break from Shakespeare forreal #anyways fun fact: it is not known when this play was written it when Kālidāsa existed #the time period of his existence or the composition of his works is not known the estimations are vast #so he cannot definitively be placed in a specific time period #but we know that this is from ancient India and we love to see it #maybe I'll learn Sanskrit to read the original sanskrit text who knows #my point is. indian classics. they need more recognition. so you all better reblog this and others that I will share occasionally.#spread this around. this is high poetry like come ON #And Hindu mythology is very interesting if you need a break from the Greeks #go on expand your horizons #text #October 2020

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