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Vihang A. Naik
Vihang A. Naik was born in Surat, Gujarat on September 2, 1969. He is India’s contemporary poet writing in English. His poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies along with some significant e-publications. Four collections of his poetry have been published: Poetry Manifesto: New & Selected Poems (2010), Making A Poem (2004), City Times and Other Poems (1993). His Gujarati collection of poems include Jeevangeet (Gujarati Poems) in 2001, dedicated to the cause of victims of Gujarat Earthquake of January 26, 2001. He also translates poetry written in the Gujarati language into English, including his own Gujarati language poems.He is educated from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda with English Literature, Indian Literature in English Translation and Philosophy. He had his primary schooling from Navrachna School in Baroda, Gujarat. He took teaching as a profession serving in colleges since 1996 in Gujarat. He lives in Gujarat. His literary info can be found at www.vihang.org
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vihang A. Naik throws light on the life of a city in all its shades, glory, and misery in his City Times and Other Poems. It is an anthology of his intuitive and philosophical poems. The poems are divided in six segments (i.e., "Love Song of a Journey Man" is more or less an inner travelogue. The segments, for instance, "Mirrored Man" is about the other chimeras in the city .The people in the city are capricious like the walk of a crab or the colors of a chameleon. While "The Path of Wisdom" is about the beginning of meditation and knowledge. "At the Shore" records the poet's sense of futility, memory, pain, exile, and alienation at the shore of life). The title of this collection is also the heading for the last of its six sections, in which the city is unfolded as a marketplace, as a heaven for underdogs, and as a seed bed of change and is observed at evening, at midnight, by moonlight, and through fog and haze...