Bard are known as "the Bard of Avon" (often simply "the Bard") and "the Bard of Bengal" respectively. The word is a Celtic loan word from Scottish Gaelic "bàrd", Irish "bard", Welsh "bardd". In 16th-century Scotland, it was a derogatory term for an itinerant musician; nonetheless it was later romanticised by Sir Walter Scott. In medieval Gaelic and Welsh society, a "bard" (Scottish and Irish Gaelic) or "bardd" (Welsh) was a professional poet, employed to compose eulogies for his lord (see planxty). If the employer failed to pay the proper amount, the bard would then compose a satire (c.f. "fili", "fáith").
The Bard of Blood The Bard of Blood The Bard of Blood is a 2015 Indian fictional espionage thriller novel written by debutant author Bilal Siddiqi. He wrote the novel at the age of 20 during his college days. It was published by Penguin books. Kabir Anand, is a former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agent and now a professor of Shakespear in Mumbai. He was forced to leave RAW after a disastrous mission in Balochistan. He is called by the agency to return back after Sadiq Sheikh, his ex-boss is killed. Meanwhile, Mullah Omar and the ISI are also after him. Siddiqi said