The Leslie Tripathy Show

Wanted to congratulate my dearest and kindest Aunt Ruth Wildes Schuler ,a famous American Writer and Poet,on winning third prize in the Embassy International dancing Poetry Contest this year. Here are the links to her radio interview, with the Fantabulous Jane Crown http://www.blogtalkradio.com/The-Jane-Crown-Show/2009/06/21/Ruth-Wildes-Schuler Ruth Wildes Schuler was born in Salem, Massachusetts on February 11, 1933. She received a Master’s Degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She has had over 1000 poems, short stories, literary articles and book reviews published in anthologies and small press publications in twenty one countries around the world and has had work translated into nineteen languages. She also has had work published on the Internet from the United States, Germany, India, and Hong Kong. She started her own press Heritage Trails and published many chap books and anthologies. For eleven years, she edited an international literary magazine, PR...

I have always been a fan of courageous,brave women unafraid to speak the truth,unafraid of consequences.And one such women of courage and integrity happens to be Shobha De .I would read her columns in the times of india,which were feministic,brave,acidic,more because there was this woman,who was an icon,for her writing and the intellectual genes cells/blood inside my body thanks to a poet father and intellectual mother,I had grown up on a diet of writers,poets,brave,courageous heroes and heroines.And to me Shobha De and Amitav Ghosh were few such icons.When I was informed Amitav Ghosh was to visit Bhubaneswar,I certainly couldnot wait to listen to the Iconic writer,who is one of India’s best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.H...