• Basharat Ali

Shiv K Kumar was born in 1921 in Lahore. He made a mark as a novelist, short-story writer, poet , dramatist, critic and translator. He can be truly called a Postcolonial poet. Recipient of Sahitya Academi and Padma Bhushan Award with various books of poetry, drama, short story and translation, Shiv K. Kumar gave an identity and a sense of direction to Indian English poetry in the Postcolonial period. His use of Indian mythology and the sense of history are wonderful and he uses them as themes and technique in his poetry. And it is in this aspect that his poetry conforms to the norms of Postcolonial literature. But the most attractive feature of his works is that it provides a different touch to Indian sensibility. Other than this, themes like East-West encounter, Indian background, national characteristics, contemporary reality and issues he takes all these as in his poetry which give the whole essence of Indian sensibility. This paper focuses on Indian sensibility in the select poems of Shiv K Kumar.

Postcolonial, Sensibility, identity, mythology

"Indian Sensibility in the Poetry of Shiv. K. Kumar", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 3, page no.614-617, March-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1703106.pdf

"Indian Sensibility in the Poetry of Shiv. K. Kumar", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 3, page no. pp614-617, March-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1703106.pdf