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इस कविता संग्रह का मूल आधार है – जैसी दृष्टि वैसी सृष्टि। हम अपूर्ण हैं – अपूर्ण पूर्ण को पूर्ण रूप से जानने का प्रयास तो कर सकता है किन्तु पूर्ण को सम्पूर्ण रूप से नहीं जाना जा सकता।

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There is no didacticism in these pieces, just warmth and concern, laced with rich description, entertaining tales, urban and folk lore, and hilarious metaphors. Shukla’s self-confessed efforts “to make sense of a world gradually going bonkers” leave the reader, facing the same world, vastly soothed and hooting with laughter.

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Stout and Tender is Badri Raina’s third (and largest) anthology of poems in which the academic-poet, while musing and introspective, feels compelled to engage with glaring contemporary brutalities, anguish, sad and reviling ironies, the slow, stabbing death of humanism, and societal change inflicted by the digital age.