Bard Bard In medieval Gaelic and British culture, a bard was a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble), to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. Originally a specific, lower class of poet, contrasting with the higher rank known as "fili" in Ireland and Highland Scotland, with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period the term "bard" acquired generic meanings of an author or minstrel, especially a famous one. For example, William Shakespeare, and Rabindranath Tagore,
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