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Synopsis Indian English poetry since its inception with several notable pets has come of age with many laurels in its receptacle. Indians nowadays use English with as much subtlety, ease and finesse as others, Indian English poetry today has come of age, no doubt, but with a marked difference. The pioneers of Indian English poetry with their experiments brought an end to aridity. And soon there were clouds that invited rains. The soggy literary Indian earth over the last two centuries have given birth to innumerable poets and every year the nation finds a rainbow of Indian English poets much to the awe and envy of their Western torchbearers. India today has no dearth of poets writing in English. The present anthology discusses Indian English poets in the light of true Indian psyche that bears, burns and begets the sensations felt, desires swelled and inheritance lost in the buzz of alien aping and onslaughts of the diabolic tendencies bolting our conscience. The poets discussed in this anthology comprise both the pioneers and the present day poets who demonstrate and strengthen the aspect of Indianness in their poems, Indian English poetry is not a nest of singing birds but a kaleidoscope of all sorts of experiences. The essays included in this anthology have the variegated oclours of rainbow with Indian imagination as the eighth colour. The various colours as the working force of the book include various themes bordering on space, time, values, tradition, ecology, self and politics with many sub themes formulating and fragmenting human lives. The book will facilitate the readers and lovers of poetry in understanding Indian ethos camouflaged in the day-to-day activities of Indian masses without any linguistic barrier. An attempt has also been made in this anthology to bring to light those poets who despite adequate in the glitter and glamour of the present day world.