“I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.”
(‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’)
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American poet Langston Hughes wrote the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” nearly a century ago, where he emancipates himself as his soul ‘has grown deep like the rivers’. Tamil poetess Lakshmi Kannan’s Nadistuti is of the rivers and for the rivers flowing deep at our…
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