Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949), popularly known as the "Nightingale of India," occupies a distinguished place in the history of Indian English literature as one of the finest lyric poets of the early twentieth century.

Sarojini Naidu occupies a distinguished place in Indian English literature as one of the finest lyric poets of the early twentieth century.

Boat-Ride along the Ganga is one of the most celebrated poems by Keki N. Daruwalla and appears as the opening poem in his acclaimed collection Crossing of Rivers.

Fire-Hymn is one of the most remarkable and philosophically profound poems by K.N. Daruwalla, one of the foremost voices in Indian English poetry.

‘A River’ by A.K. Ramanujan was published in ‘The Striders’ in 1966. It is a poem on the Vaikai, which flows through Madurai. This river is appropriately described as a ‘city of temples and poets’, approximately 450 km.

The poem ‘Upagupta’ is a part of Tagore's writings in English in an anthology of 86 poems, translated from the original Bengali Version by Tagore himself.

The poem ‘The Queen's Rival’ is based on a Persian folk tale shared with Sarojini by a close friend. It has been taken from the poems’ section of ‘The Golden Threshold’, the first volume of verse by Sarojini Naidu.

Toru Dutt has blended the autobiographical element, the poignant note of pathos, the elegiac note and the deep - sensuous description of nature in the poem, ‘Our Casuarina Tree’.