Prayag and Clockwork
Literary Trails
At a station on board a superfast to Prayag, great but illusory expectations. Two poems by Hemang Ashwinkumar…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
At a station on board a superfast to Prayag, great but illusory expectations. Two poems by Hemang Ashwinkumar…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Poet translator and dramatist Mukhtar Siddiqui (1919-1972) shaped modern Urdu literature with innovative lyrical content evident in these poems translated by poet Riyaz Latif…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Poet and translator A.J. Thomas meditates on the delights of fish eating and wonders about sardines in Sardinia …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
The aura of victimhood and romance around Dara Shikoh’s last days and death has obscured his command of Vedanta, Sufism and Philosophy. He was besides, a serious Persian poet avers Shamsur Rahman Faruqi…[Read More]…
Between the Lines
Gandhi may have failed but does not the Gandhian idea of a threefold revolution for sanity against “dark and demonic” forces still count, asked A.K. Saran fifty years ago. His question is still relevant …[Read More]…
Between the Lines
Gandhi is the last representative of the sant traditions of India. Vinay Lal explores this proposition particularly with reference to his unequivocal admiration for the bhajan, “Vaishnavajana to” (“Call Only That One a Vaishnava”) …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Violence is so routinized as to have become a banal spectacle denuding what’s left of our humanity. But there’s hope, feels Dilip Simeon in Gandhi’s message of Ahimsa as Truth.
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