पुजारी का कर्म (Video + photo) पुजारी चिताओं के बीच खड़ा है, उसके मंत्रोच्चार उसके भीतर ही घुल रहे हैं, चिताओं की अग्नि में, लकड़ियों के जलने की आवाज़ और धुंआं मुखर है। अब तक उसने कभी दिन भर में, दो–एक से अधिक अंतिम संस्कार नहीं कराये, अब वह हर रोज़ सैकड़ों मृतकों के लिये मंत्र पढ़… Read More पुजारी का कर्म
And night has come upon my land, the carrion birds encircling and prayers ascend on pyres lit, the shadows fast descending And leaders know not how to lead, they gape, they watch in silence while each new day brings grief afresh, no help, no rest, no guidance And those who come with sturdier boats, will… Read More Nandini Sen Mehra: And night has come upon my land
Brian Eno & David Byrne – Home Album: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06jFQMxPtxw The dimming of the light makes the picture clearer It’s just an old photograph There’s nothing to hide When the world was just beginning I memorized a face so it’s not forgotten I hear the wind whistlin’ Come back anytime… Read More Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Leave Truth to the police and us; we know the Good; We build the Perfect City time shall never alter; Our Law shall guard you always like a cirque of mountains… (p 266) But ideas can be true although men die, And we can watch a thousand faces Made active by… Read More Journey To A War by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood (1939) // W. H. Auden 'In Time of War' (1939)
First posted March 09, 2017 Mohan K. Tikku The most outstanding figure in 20th century Kashmiri literature has also been the least published poet of his generation. To his many readers and admirers, Dinanath Nadim has been a bit of a paradox. In a literary career extending over half a century, Nadim (1916-89) wrote a… Read More Dinanath Nadim: Kashmir’s forgotten poet
After the truth-shower 