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The Scoria : The Little Universe of Vihang Naik - But more often than not the it tends to appear in the vision of the poet as part of a bird's eye-view . It is his bird's eye-view as it were , where you 'melt away in the noises of a city whose streets lead you nowhere ',the streets which are 'jarring' ; 'where city is a market busy in deeds, words' , 'a faceless world' with 'vicious maps, snaking streets and crossroads' , where there always are scores of underdogs ( the human beings reduced to the status of beggars ) with 'unclean heart lines' and 'with the glasses of their eyes cracked' or 'the Sun of their eyes covered' , when seen in the evenings and a city 'composed of unreals ' in the long night of neon lights. Vihang Naik has a sharp faculty of seeing , though at times it appears that he sees without seeing: the myriad beautiful and succinct word-images scattered throughout this collection bear a testimony to the effect that he is predominantly a poet of visual imagery. May be this has some thing to do with the root meaning of his name ( Vihang = A bird , A cloud or an Arrow ? ).... "The poet appears to be quite sincere in his own unselfconscious way...." - Pradeep Kansi Kansi, Pradeep. “The Little Universe of Vihang Naik.” Rev. of City Times And Other Poems , by Vihang Naik . Ed. Krishna Kumar Mishra. Chandigarh , India : The SCORIA ( mag issue ) , July - September 1997 . p.74 - 75. |
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