: Opinion: In ‘praise’ of Tyrants #IndiaNEWS #News By Pramod K Nayar Heroes adorn poetry, whether in Greek epics or Hindu ones. Their valour, their appearance, their chivalry and their inspirational

Opinion: In ‘praise’ of Tyrants #IndiaNEWS #News
By Pramod K Nayar
Heroes adorn poetry, whether in Greek epics or Hindu ones. Their valour, their appearance, their chivalry and their inspirational actions have served poetry well. So what would poetry about dictators, villains, tyrants and evil-doers – real and mythic – be like?
The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges once said in his ‘Statement to the Argentine Society of Letters’:
“Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. ???
Much of the poetry about tyrants instantiates Borges’ formulation.
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