Arts/Literature

Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey park ranger desert solitary author – avatar of beautiful traumatized Earth wrote to us with a pine needle with tip of the tail of a gopher snake, “there…

The Me of Me

1. I went searching for the me of me!   Who is it?  What is it?  How will I know? Is it unchangeable—a hyper-essence? If I found it, would I…

Lament of the Yellow Rose

I am a yellow rose lovingly cared for by an old man Who planted me in his garden I am in full bloom now but he doesn’t come to admire…

EO: Three Hooves up in High Heaven

Films featuring animals as screen filled protagonists, often in an imperfect, callous human world, have been made before.  There was Robert Bresson’s 1966 Au Hasard Balthazar, which introduced audiences to…

Truth is Radical

A Prose Poem or Ecosophic Meditation Look: Civilization ended in a post-midnight place named Auschwitz; with the terminal moment of anti-event, at the irreversible dropping of The Bomb on Hiroshima. …

“Mother’s Day”

In honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx1OeZgaXOw If we could see a Mother’s Day All around the world, Where mothers lived a day of joy, Where mothers…

1963: death of a poet

It is 1963, I am recording live the last moments of Sylvia’s life. She invites me as she doesn’t understand livecast.   “Have a cake” she says, “Baked in my…

February: The Month of Deaths

1 18th February 1983 Thanks to God(?) History doesn't stink. Or else it could have still stinking the flesh, dust and blood of that six hours - the insane hours…

LA VIE EN ROSE

They wanted love. The young. The desire was inside them. A candle in the night. A match in a bedroom of fireworks.   They wanted to tumble in pairs into…

Lay Red Roses

February, the month of love, is now coloured by incarnadined cries from battlegrounds.   Irrawaddy has turned red. Dneiper weeps ashes and blood. Yet, red roses will distribute love bought…

Sarcasm

nothing is more important than the colour of a bikini nothing is more important than to be against 'love jihad' supposedly being represented on screen nothing is more important than…

 The poet, writer and social commitment

Charles Dickens,  the celebrated 19th century  novelist,  earned  good money  through  public reading of his works in  England and the U.S.to wipe  out  his father’s   and his own debt. His…

For Sasi

For the first time He was at my place coming straight from Kandhamal !! Do you know where Kandhamal is? He asked me. A man from Kerala is asking a…

Unpublished Cartoons of K.P.Sasi

Here are a few cartoons of K.P.Sasi who passed away recently. They are not really unpublished. It only means that they are being published on the web for the first…

Farha

The woman who viewed my life on-screen, said, she cried in class retelling it. She asked me, have I at any time smiled thereafter ! She is from India. On…

Dinner Guest

Death Sits at the dinner table with me He has Impeccable manners Never touches anything Never talks out of turn Truly A somewhat amiable chap Except He has the nasty…

Arrival

I searched long for You In the infinite fields Of Being I followed the myth Of your laughter I composed What I thought Was the heart Of Your Song I…

HE STANDS on the ROCK

He stands on the Rock the beautiful rock beside the flourishing Tree of Life.   He stands on the Rock on the beautiful rock beside the flowing river of light.…

In Memory of Harold Bloom

How shall I climb When the ladder Is not mine? How shall I reach Thine ear When such is not my speech? How shall I engender Words When diction, close,…

First Love

[My tribute to the immortal love poems of my favorite poet of Bengal, Sunil Gangopadhyay.] My first love was a foggy blur Over my familiar world of twenty springs. He…

Dark Mystery

The Flesh on the Cross It is a great meditation It is a great Truth Of the World The nails of our traitors Slowly bore into us As we call…

Papillon

They chained you Made you know Inside and out What it is like To be rock They taught you The secret hardnesses of time The Gorgon Face Of the clock…

Las Vegas

The Gangsters were all waiting for me Their uninvited guest Their cigarettes were all lighted Their black ties were all straight I owed them without knowing And now had to…

Poise

Young with the wisdom Of an elder Unfair. No childhood. That’s your life   Not allowed ever To be angry Not allowed to raise Your hands   Smile through it…

In Memory of Leonard Cohen

Do you think that love is waiting Do you think that someone's there There are only the hounds retreating There is only a ghost going up the stairs Now all…

Eternal Command

Stand at attention All you dogs And make fire for me Do not take the white branches From under the sea Leave me the Winter's song On my tired breast…

No Poet

I'm not really a poet I'm anti-gravity I'm stale mashed potatoes and gravy I'm what's left out After your last pay check I'm the last words your wife says Before…

The Curses of Patriarchy

Patriarchy cursed me, I laughed and move on They said you are a female, your birth is a burden I survived and thrived, flourished and bloomed Confronted their stereotypes and…

For M.M. 1992/2022

Stretching into love again After a hiatus of years Lips need old lips To see past new tears Our hands hung In Time's hammock Patiently waiting For a rose Moon…

Democracy

All the chicken heads Are hung against the wall And in invisible velvet rooms Choice chokes on power And the stupid dance Of commanded wraiths Processes its time Declares victors'…

You are not a great poet

You are not a great poet The swan does not stir No flower bends No mouth opens for more breath The universe remains steadily in place All the clocks tick…

Kantara: Film around Human-Nature conflict

In the human and nature conflict debate, conservationists argue for expansion of wilderness and wildlife and those advocating tribal rights advocate for increasing access of tribal rights over land, water…

Review: The King of Laughter

The Italian film festival which has opened in various cities of India from October 12, 2022, has brought with it a slew of interesting works by Italian directors which include…

 Death of the Moth: A Requiem

[Dedicated to the fiery, undying spirit of the phenomenal modernist author Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882-March 28, 1941)] ‘They are hybrid creatures, neither gay like butterflies nor somber like their…

To Anjali

You are not just a name on the ballot. You are more than that. A flowing stream. A shady tree. A roaring ocean. A breeze of fresh air. The song…

Best Songs of Majrooh Sultanpuri

Majrooh Sultanpuri ( 1919-2000) was a highly talented lyricist of Hindi cinema who also received the highly coveted Dadasaheb Phalke Award for lifetime achievement. What is less known is his…

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