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Mukesh Williams teaches English and American Studies at two universities in Japan and also writes poetry. A small book
of his poems, Nakasendo and Other Poems, was published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta, in 2006. An Indian citizen, Mukesh
has a doctorate in Contemporary American Literature from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has taught undergraduate
and graduate level courses on English poetry, fiction, prose and drama for nearly two decades at St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
He has also been the editor-in-chief of The Stephanian and was the President of the Shakespeare Society at St. Stephen's
College. He has been on the faculties of Soka University for nine years and at Keio University-SFC for six years. His third
and latest co-authored book, Representing India: Politics, Identities, and Literatures, is due to be released by Oxford
University Press in April 2008.
Contact Mukesh
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AUTUMN 2007
Oh, Canada!
WILLIAMS
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| E. A. Hanninen-2007-Graphic |
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| "Ghadr: Revolution & Free Hindustani - BC 1908" |
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| Dallas J. Bryant - 2007 |
Canada and India
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Those early settlements, hamlets, villages
That grew out of human need and want,
Those early human habitations
Stretching from Asia to the New World,
Must have sometimes run parallel to
—Others preceding or succeeding—
Each other, according to some unknown plan,
Or just random selection
We know nothing of.
Our memories are short,
Our recorded histories too imprecise
To deal with this clearly.
But we do imagine that
In the New World
The Iroquois and Cartier
Defined the early thoughts,
While in India the Aryans and Clive
Defined ours.
We may not share a common past,
The distances are enormous,
The identities so diverse,
Interests also differ, but yet,
Both were European colonies,
Converted, controlled and created,
To seek profit and,
Provide the necessary wherewithal
For the French or the British empires.
More than the commonality of knowledge,
The spirit of the renaissance, or
Working for the greater glory
Of a nation or a civilization what
Brings the hitherto separated worlds together
In the aftermath of battles,
Terrorist bombings, betrayal and deceit,
Is the history of shared grief, shattered homes,
Where hitherto strangers become one.
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Contemporary Poetry With An Eye Towards Resistance
Copr. 2007-08 The Centrifugal Eye - Collected Works - All Rights Reserved.
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