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Dr Alka Tyagi is an academic, translator and a bilingual poet. Her published works includes three collections of her poetry – Whispers at the Ganga Ghat and Other Poems (English), Sun Ri Sakhi and Amaltas (Hindi) – and recent academic work, Reconstructing Devotion through Narada Bhakti Sutra (2019),...
bilingual poet alka tyagiAlka Tyagi has been practicing yoga for 25 years now. Trained at Bihar School of Yoga, Munger, she worked for Ananda in the Himalayas as Head Yoga Teacher. She now lives in Delhi and does yoga workshops for children, adults and special packages for executives and working women. She has also assisted...
Alka Tyagi Yoga InstructorHere is the Introduction that I wrote to the book WHISPERS AT THE GANGA GHAT AND OTHER POEMS | Alka Tyagi "The eyes are beyond time Beyond memories Beyond words – " Whispers at the Ganga Ghat and other poems, is a beautiful corpus of outstanding love poems. The whisperings that we hear while...
poem Whispers at the Ganga GhatInitiation to yoga The word ‘Yoga’ is derived from ‘Yuj’ which simply means to unify or to join. Hence yoga is defined as ‘union’ i.e. union of the individual self with the cosmic self. In more comprehensive terms yoga denotes the techniques that lead to harmony between the inner self and...
The recently published “Whispers at the Ganga Ghat and Other Poems” is her first collection of verses in English but Delhiite Alka Tyagi is not a new spurt in the city’s arc of poets. Alka, professor of English Literature in Delhi University’s Dayal Singh College, has been writing poetry both...