Name at birth: | Seshendra Sharma |
Date of birth: | October 20, 1927 |
Place of birth: | Nagarazupadu Village |
Date of death: | May 30, 2007 |
Place of death: | Hyderabad, India |
Resting place: | Hyderabad |
Submitted by: | Saatyaki S/o Seshendra Sharma |
Visionary Poet of the Millennium
An Indian Poet Prophet
Seshendra Sharma was one of the most outstanding minds of modern Asia. He was the foremost of the Telugu poets of his age, who turned poetry to the gigantic strides of human history and embellished literature with the thrills and triumphs of the 20th century. A revolutionary poet who spurned pedestrian and pedantic poetry equally, a brilliant critic and a scholar of Sanskrit, this versatile poet breathed a new vision of modernity into his vernacular. Such minds place Telugu on the world map of intellectualism. Readers conversant with names like Paul Valery, Gauguin, and Dag Hammarskjold will have to add the name of Seshendra Sharma the writer from India to that dynasty of intellectuals.
Rivers and poets
Are veins and arteries
Of a country.
Rivers flow like poems
For animals, for birds
And for human beings-
The dreams that rivers dream
Bear fruit in the fields
The dreams that poets dream
Bear fruit in the people-
The sunshine of my thought fell on the word
And its long shadow fell upon the century
Sun was playing with the early morning flowers
Time was frightened at the sight of the martyr-
– Seshendra Sharma
An era of scholastic excellence and poetic grandeur has come to an end in the passing away of Gunturu Seshendra Sharma.