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September 15, 2026

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Konkani poems of Maya Kharangate

-Brian Mendonca World poetry day today was celebrated in a unique way this morning. Students had to select a poem written by Konkani writer Maya Kharangate and depict it through a short video. This is a novel way of approaching poetry. Students had to pay close attention to the images in the poem and present it with suitable sound, and video. The poem was read as an overlay so the viewer could visualize more completely. Students also introduced the poem in Konkani. The following poems by Maya were rendered in video format. 1. Mogri Tenna Parmaltat [When the Mogra Blooms] 2. Sopon [Dream] 3. Uzo [Fire] 4. Asoch Gajatlo [] 5. Dev Faslo [God in a Quandary] 6. Burgeponn [Childhood] 7. Tarnatcha [Youth] 8. Ti Mati hi Mati [That Earth, this Earth] 9. Ti Dukaa [These Tears]

'Sangati' by Bama

'Sangati' by Bama -Brian Mendonca Sangati (1994) by Bama Soosairaj (Born 1958) was originally written in Tamil. The English translation was made available a decade later. The title means 'events' in English. It prepares us for what is to follow. It is a telling of events as they happen - from the point of view of a Dalit Christian woman in Tamil Nadu, India. The novel is divided into 12 chapters divided into subsections. Here is a summary of the chapters with lines quoted from the text. Chapter 1: A Woman's Family (3-14) Pathima, a 13-year-old narrator, studying in Class 8, asserts agency over the narrative, 'When I was born . . . .' (3) The mother Sevathi, and grandmother are introduced. The grandmother, Vellaiyamma Kizhavi, is a...

The Heresy of Paraphrase

The Well-Wrought Urn -Brian Mendonca 'The Heresy of Paraphrase' (pgs. 192-214) by Cleanth Brooks is the 11th and last chapter of his book of essays titled The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947). It is a short essay of 13 pages and is usually studied along with the first chapter in the volume titled, 'The Language of Paradox.' In the last chapter Brooks ends his observations on how to read poetry. He states that the meaning of a poem is to be found in itself - its literary devices, its meanderings, and its aporia (contradictions). The word 'heresy' comes from the Greek word ' heresia' which meant original thought, a way of thinking that was against accepted notions. Brooks invokes the disruptive nature of heresy and says that it is unimaginable that a poem be reduced to a paraphrase, i.e. trying to assemble its meaning in different words which are simpler. He begins by referring to the ten poems he has discussed earlier...

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