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hi
i need a poem in english by a modern indian poet for a recitation competition.
plz help me out wid this.
thanx.

i looked up google...but cant find anything much..can someone help me wid this!?

You can't go wrong with Rabindranath Tagore.

As to finding a specific poem, I second Ddunk on recommending Google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=poem+Rabindranath+Tagore

i actually need it in English and i dont need any translated work..thats why i cant go with Tagore..did he write any in english?

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Originally posted by Rubber Stamp
i looked up google...but cant find anything much..can someone help me wid this!?

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There is plenty to find, even by following Ddunk's link... All you need to do is click and read :/

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Originally posted by Rubber Stamp
...thats why i cant go with Tagore..did he write any in english?

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As you can read from many links, besides writing in Bengali, he wrote in English too.

And from wikipedia (also a link which pops up with Ddunk's link): Other early notable poets in English include Derozio, Michael Madhsudhan Dutt, Joseph Furtado, Armando Menezes, Toru Dutt, Romesh Chandra Dutt, Sarojini Naidu and her brother Harendranath Chattopadhyaya.

So you can search on those too...

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Originally posted by Rubber Stamp
i actually need it in English and i dont need any translated work..

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Still use google and Ddunk's link, only specify it a bit more....
google: modern indian english poetry

http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjguides/lit/worldliteng/specind.htm
http://www.geocities.com/varnamala/ineng.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_writing_in_English
http://india.poetryinternational.org/
etc...
etc...

Tagore himself translated a number of his poems in English.  Given that they were his poems and he was translating them himself (and creating some original uniqueness in the process), that could be close enough.  Take a look at this:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/gitnjali.htm

I don't know whether he ever wrote anything in English "from scratch". 

Quite frankly, I think the combined requirement, of it being Indian poetry and originally written in English, is conflicting and silly.  While some poets of Indian descent who wrote in English probably exist, I'd doubt those would be the best examples of either Indian culture or English language.

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Originally posted by Adeptus
Quite frankly, I think the combined requirement, of it being Indian poetry and originally written in English, is conflicting and silly. While some poets of Indian descent who wrote in English probably exist, I'd doubt those would be the best examples of either Indian culture or English language.

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True....

Nevertheless there are plenty who wrote in English (leaving the question about how representative they are for English/Indian literature in the middle). A good example is Gieve Patel who write in English and is apparently "an important presence in the history of modern Indian poetry in English".

Google: modern indian english poetry