The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, the… Read More Margaret Atwood: The Moment
In a strongly-worded statement, more than 170 Gujarat cultural personalities, activists and academics have strongly protested against “threats” issued against Gujarati writers in the Gujarat Sahitya Academi journal “Shabdsrushti” through an anonymous writeup under the titled “No, This Is Not a Poem, It Is Misuse of a ‘Poem’ for Anarchy…” Supposedly an editorial, published, ironically on page… Read More Sahitya Akademi's so-called editorial 'death knell' for Gujarati writers' free expression / Litterateurs demand withdrawal of Gujarat Sahitya Akademi editorial
ना भूलना तुम ना भूलना तुम,2021 की पहली अप्रैल की सुबह, या उसके पहले की कोई सुबह, वसंत ऋतु की मंद ख़ुशबुएँ, जब, एक नहीं, करोड़ों आंखें एक साथ खुलीं थीं। और सबने अशुभ का कोई मंज़र देखा था! मन में कुछ खौफ़ सा लगा था। ना भूलना तुम, कि तुम्हारी खिड़की की चौखट… Read More ना भूलना तुम : By Dr Raju Sharma, ex IAS
NB: Thank you Parulben for reminding us of the humanity and decency of the Indian people. No matter how much abuse and how many threats are hurled at you, remember that you speak and write for all suffering people. We are with you. Charan-sparsh. DS दया धर्म का मूल है पाप मूल अभिमान, तुलसी दया… Read More Gujarati Poet Parul Khakkar Blames 'Naked King' for Corpses Floating in the Ganga
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 