After being featured in renowned lyricist Gulzar’s ‘A Poem A Day’, a collection of poems, Kosli poet Padma Shri Haldhar Nag has expressed his gratitude to the noted filmmaker and also to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Nag has written a letter to Gulzar and Patnaik thanking them. He praised the Chief Minister for the decision of setting up of a Kosli dialect and literature research centre at his village Ghens in Bargarh district.
Notably, Nag has found place on the first page of ‘A Poem A Day’ which is a collection of Indian poems selected and translated by Gulzar. The book features 365 contemporary poems in 34 languages of 279 poets across the country. The book begins with Nag’s two poems ‘Pancha Amruta’ and ‘Chitthi Deuchhen re Haldhar’. On the first page, Gulzar writes, “Dear Haldhar, you are like sunrise of my book”. Gulzar has also sent a letter to Nag expressing that he is excited to meet him in person.