Sahitya Akademi publishes book-length poem ‘Monsoon’ by Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K

Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters has published a book-length poem ‘Monsoon’ by Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K. Monsoon is a poem of 150 stanzas of 4 lines each that commence its journey in Madagascar and follows the path of the monsoon invoking the rich flora and fauna, languages, cuisine, music, monuments, landscapes, traditions, myths and legends of the places through which monsoon travels and acts as a messenger to carry the poet’s message from Madagascar to his beloved in Srinagar in the Himalayas.

Sahitya Akademi was established on March 12 in 1954. The first President of Sahitya Akademi was Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. The first book published by the Academy was Bhagwan Buddha by D.D. Koshambi in 1956.