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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Shiva Tandava Stotra
Some time ago I wrote a post entitled, ” The Tao of Tandavam”. I have since, come across a stirring rendering of the “Invocation of The Dancing Lord”, with beautiful illustrations. I hope you will like it.. The URL is … Continue reading
The twins who performed a transplant of head.
The two young men were charming and beautiful. Both looked alike. They were in fact, twins, And they were inseparable, well in a figurative way, otherwise they would have needed a skilled surgeon to separate them. They were quite sure … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashwini Devatas, Chyawana, Dadheechi, Dadhyaka, Devendra, Indra, Medicine, Organ transplantation, philosophy, Physician, Sukanya, surgeon, Vajrayudga
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Getting married to four is veritable death.
It was Ugadi, the Telugu New Year’s Day on Fri day, the 23 rd instant. I wish every body a happy and prosperous new year, which is named the Nandana year, the Year of The Son, or The Year of … Continue reading
The Moon Is Awake, The Night Stands By.
March 21 is The World Poetry Day . To celebrate it, here is my attempt at translation of an Urdu poem, by Bashir Badr which I like. The versatile Ghazal singer Hariharan has rendered it (except the second stanza) sweetly … Continue reading
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Tagged Bashir Badr., Chandni Bhi mere tarha, Ghazal, Hariharan, Matla, Misre, Urdu, World Poetry Day
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Time, The Great Leveller, of fortunes.
Lala Kedar Nath Is in the seventh heaven. It is his kids’ birth day. All the three of them share the same day of the month and the same month of the year as their birth day. His wife is … Continue reading
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Tagged aashique -e-jaanvida. Confetti, Achala Sachdev, baachpan, Balraj Sahni, buntings, destiny, lala Kedarnath, waqt, Yash Chopra, Zohra zabeen
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The night drags on, for ages
The old man is seriously ill.He is fidgeting restlessly on his cot, his chest heaving and falling, heaving and falling. He calls out to the young man, ” Pyaare!” The young man rushes to his baba. Sits on the cot, … Continue reading
It’s bliss to bear your pain silently.
Here is yet another beautiful lyric about, well, insanity, by the late Hakim Mohammad Nasir, which I have attempted to translate into English. Hope you will like it. You have turned me insane. You keep on telling me about how … Continue reading
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Tagged Abida Parveen, Basil, Ghulam Ali, Hakim Nasir, travel
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Ganesh paintings and statues
My attempt to post this yesterday failed. Sorry for that. My ineptitude rather than a prank by The Lord. Ganesh paintings and statues.doc
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Tagged Ganesh photoss, Ganesh staue, Hoyasaleswara temple., Skanda
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The Allure of Vagrancy.
Poets stand apart from other prosaic people. Lot of them are compulsive tramps or vagabonds. Many are eccentric and quill esoteric verses, often replete with layers upon layers of turbid allusions their reader struggle hard to analyse or decipher and … Continue reading
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