Tag: indian poetry

  • Trysts by night in art and poetry

    Trysts by night in art and poetry

    The painting above, by one of the great Indian artists of the late eighteenth century, Nainsukh, depicts such a scene.  Our paramour sneaks away from her home by night to a spot in the forest where she has arranged to meet her lover during the night, and she must be back before anyone awakes and…