Friday, June 25, 2010

Subrahmanya Bharati

Subrahmanya Bharati
From about the middle of the 19th century powerful literary trends emerged nearly in all languages. Patriotic poems and songs became major instruments of emancipation of depressed classes. In Tamil Nadu it was Subrahmanya Bharati who took up nationalist and reformist themes for his poems. His poems dealt with caste oppression and the sorry plight of women in Indian society.

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