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EDITION ( India )

INTERVIEW 01

excerpts from interview

N. P. Krishna Kumar

 with

Vihang A Naik

Resident Editor
Indian Express
Baroda City
Edition ( India )
 

Indian Express : "One could characterize it as an urban response and highly experimental free verse which he endows with an internal structure. Instead of Nature in the tradition of the predominantly romantic Indian poetry , it is the milieu of the City that Vihang's muse took him to. "The City stands as a character. It comes out in some form, even if I try to reject it,' says Vihang

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There
the road unwinds,
where
you'll pick up
the race
and melt away
in the noises
of a city
whose streets
lead you nowhere.  

( form City Times )

City Times , in a way , is highly personal . "it's my way of objectifying my experience in terms of an original poetics."....

- N. P. Krishna Kumar ( Resident Editor - Indian Express - Baroda Edition   )

Naik , Vihang .  "Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man." Ed. N. P. Krishna Kumar  interview with Vihang Naik ( newspaper interview article ) .Ed. N. P. Krishna Kumar. Gujarat, India : The Indian Express , City & State . Baroda ed , Friday, March 25th 1994. p.3.

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