Vihang A. Naik's 'Indian Summer': A Colourful Indian Painting with Multiple Meanings

“Indian Summer” is a beautiful Indian painting in words with multiple layers of meaning demonstrating Vihang A. Naik’s poetry manifesto. The idiom of his poetry manifesto speaks of unexpected thing in colours that vary from black and white to bloody via VIBGYOR. Being modern in spirit, this poem seems to be Naik’s wasteland where people hear the song of Koel from engines and smoke pipes. It reveals a ray of hope in the dream of ‘rain and thunder’ despite the flames (of passion) that burn and make blind with heat and dust. Rain and thunder give a meaning to life and so become the redemptive powers. The poem is pictorial in effect with its illustrative and demonstrative imagery.