My Kali
The Air I breathe is rich with Oxygen
Fresh, like that day’s sunrise
Yet I seek the gasping breath
On your snow mountains
With both Oxygen and...
I am ordered within myself just to write about You
Was it not Saraswathi
Who was the inspiration for writing?
and Shiva
the grand Lord of Education
Yet it...
Thank you all
thank youIt is rare to have
Everyone I know
be present
when Mother Earth claims
me
Thank you, my father Janaka
For taking me from the
Earth
Making me your...
So
You are done with the celebrations
they organized for You?
The pandhals, the poojas
the mass incantations
the fruits, flowers and incense,
The bhog packed
In gaily coloured paper boxes
The...
I have said my final goodbye
to me
Like the crunch of appetizers
the young wood of the Mango tree
crackles in anticipation
of the fruit above
Such was a...
Sanatan Dharma was unique in that it respected the individual over groups.
There is nothing about Creation which is static. Even when Shri Narayana was...
The beauty of the teachings of Sanatana Dharma is its variety. It is the most broad-minded, multi-hued of philosophies.
Divinity has been regarded from ancient...
It was around the dining table of Shobhana, christened Annapoorneshwari or the Goddess of Food, that plans for the renaissance of the Thiruvattaar temple...
So I am your friend, is it?
like the one you married
or the one you did not marry
Your lover
Maybe like
your tender ancestor
of a grandmother
You have...
Scientists declared
hat it was the Moon which
which made my spirits
rise and fall
As though I was on
a cocktail of chemicals
The daily Suns of energy
sank in...
Nowadays Kali
only my soul
drapes around You as worship
No longer giving You a bath,
decking You up
feeding with the choicest items for Naivedyam
Adorning you with flowers
intertwined...
Kanha!
Black darling of Vrindavan!
They are celebrating Your birthday today
They have washed You
with scented waters
Dressing You in that favourite
yellow silk
Adorning your head
with a nodding peacock...
One hundred percent is the whole of humanity. From its first recorded history, human society has continually experimented with methods of governance. An isolated...
I sort out my luggage before this trip
The bookshelves of knowledge
I no longer have any need for
The bundles of love
Tied up with kisses
The friends...
Yes
I have waited through
All these days of battle
And nights of hunger
When I pined for you
Fantasised your saying yes to me
In so many ways
That it...
Mahabalipuram
There were four stately temples in me the sea
dedicated by four warriors
No longer can I remember
which Deities lived there
The stonework was delicate
looking like pure...
Sri Aadi Shankara is easily among the most famous of Indian philosopher saints. His contribution to literature is stupendous, especially if you take into...
There will come a time
my beloved
When my most intense
conversations with you
are carried out
in silence
The very air will tremble
The moonlight strain
To overhear
The sibilances
within my soundlessness
Oh...
What will you say
When they ask
the reasons for your silence?
Were you too dense to catch
thoughts shouted out as they formed
and herded together?
Will you say
That...
If love was just that thing communicated in silence
A sculpture
made of dewdrops and dreams
And tears kissed away gently
With butterfly wings
before hurt became an issue
Before...
Devi
Kanha!
Milking the cows was devotion to you
The Milk my Naivedyam
for my ever hungry Lord
The clank of pails and my anklets
rang for You like temple...
Who would call it wrong ?
This beating of the heart
like a thousand kettle drums
My mad search for You
with twin lamps
My eyes that search everywhere
for...
All Vrindavan was just
A backdrop for You
And Your various loves
The absorbed love of Yashoda
The quiet one of Nandagopal
The protective one of Balarama
The elder whom...
Whether they made you
Deliberately mixing particles
Or you came into being
Just like that, it does not matter now
Like girls getting pregnant
Before marriage in a
Conservative society
And...
