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-"'''Madras Central'''" is an English poem and the best known work of [[Vijay Nambisan]], the Indian poet, writer and journalist. The poem won First Prize in the inaugural All India Poetry Competition conducted by [[The Poetry Society (India)]] in 1988.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indianpoetry.org/awardsgeneral.htm |title=Award Winning Poems – AIPC 1988 |access-date=2014-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034355/http://www.indianpoetry.org/awardsgeneral.htm |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The poem has received critical acclaim following its first publication in 1989.
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-The poem has received positive reviews since the day of its publication.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/madras-central-vijay-nambisan/ |title= India Uncut – ''Madras Central'' by Nambisan}}</ref> The poem has been quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary Indian English Poetry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020324/spectrum/book10.htm |title= Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets – Rana Nayar in ''The Tribune''}}</ref> The last three lines of the poem have come to be regarded as representative voice of contemporary Indian poetry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020324/spectrum/book10.htm |title= "Representative Voices – Sixty Indian Poets" by Gopi Kottoor}}</ref>
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"'''Madras Central'''" is an English poem and the best known work of [[Vijay Nambisan]], the Indian poet, writer and journalist. The poem won First Prize in the inaugural All India Poetry Competition conducted by [[The Poetry Society (India)]] in 1988.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indianpoetry.org/awardsgeneral.htm |title=Award Winning Poems – AIPC 1988 |access-date=2014-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034355/http://www.indianpoetry.org/awardsgeneral.htm |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The poem has received critical acclaim following its first publication in 1989.

==Comments and criticism==
The poem has received positive reviews since the day of its publication.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/madras-central-vijay-nambisan/ |title= India Uncut – ''Madras Central'' by Nambisan}}</ref> The poem has been quoted in scholarly analysis of contemporary Indian English Poetry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020324/spectrum/book10.htm |title= Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets – Rana Nayar in ''The Tribune''}}</ref> The last three lines of the poem have come to be regarded as representative voice of contemporary Indian poetry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020324/spectrum/book10.htm |title= "Representative Voices – Sixty Indian Poets" by Gopi Kottoor}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Indian poetry in English|Indian English poetry]]
*[[The Poetry Society (India)]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.indianpoetry.org/compititions.htm First National Poetry Competition 1988 – Award Winners]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121216063849/http://www.indiawrites.org/poetry/poetry.html ''India Writes'' – Contemporary Indian Poetry]
*[http://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=Indian+poems "Best Indian English Poems"]

[[Category:1988 poems]]
[[Category:Indian English poems]]
[[Category:Works originally published in Indian magazines]]
[[Category:Works originally published in literary magazines]]

Madras Central (poem) - Revision history

Davidwez: rework structure and added references

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