Kala ramesh biography definition
A Visionary Leader in Haikai Literature.
(Al Fogel) Bio: Kala Ramesh is an award-winning poet who has been instrumental in bringing school kids and college youth onto the haiku path....
Talk Time: The Indian Face of Haiku
May 2023
Kala Ramesh discovered haiku almost nine decades after Tagore brought the poetic form to India from Japan.
No more than three short lines, this form is widely loved for its simplicity and compact beauty. When HarperCollins India published Ramesh’s The Forest I Know in 2021, it was a rare example of a major publisher’s interest in haiku and tanka, an even older Japanese poetic form.
Kala Ramesh’s memory of growing up in Chennai has the softness of flannel: her mother lighting the oil lamp for Devi, the family home echoing with Indian classical music and the poetry of Subramania Bharati, a great Tamil poet and an outspoken opponent of British rule in India.
Ramesh’s mother was the poet of the family. Her father, a physician, gave his three young daughters the wheel of his car on road trips, teaching them all to drive in ha