Indian Poetry in English in the New Millennium: A Tour

In its initial stage, Indian Poetry in English was often tagged as derivative. Now it has developed its own idiom—Indian in form and content. The seed that was sown in the poetry of Derozio and Kashiprasad sprouted in the Dutt Family Album. Toru Dutt, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Aurobindo and Sarojini watered the sapling of Indian Poetry in English, which began to yield flowers—varied in form and contents in the poetry of the post-Independence poets like Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Kamala Das, Arun Koltkar, Jayanta Mahapatra, Keki N. Daruwalla and Shiv K. Kumar. Today more than 600 poets are composing poems despite the challenges that they receive from fiction. From 2000 to 2015, more than 750 Indian poetry collections in English have entered the world of literature. This is the victory of Indian Poetry in English. The women poets in the new millennium are not inferior to their male counterparts. Indian Poetry in English, which presents the contemporary Indian landscapes, ethos and identity, is experimental in form and content.