This comes from online friend Daya Dissanayake from Sri Lanka, and is a quote from Asgar Hussein who won The State Literary Award for his poetry collection "The Termite Castle."
'English poetry in Sri Lanka needs a new vigour. One problem with our poetry is that we must move away from domestic matters and beautiful scenery and be more broad in our perspective. A line in a poem should explain a thesis but a thesis should not be needed to explain that line'.
Guess, it applies equally for Indian poetry.
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