2020-11-15 01:55
The bees build in the crevicesOf loosening masonry, and thereThe mother birds bring grubs and flies.My wall is loosening, honey beesCome build in the empty house of the stare.
We are clos… Read More
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by facing my shadows
2020-03-07 12:58
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When I saw you wafting through
The reed-grass fields
I… Read More
2020-02-11 08:50
आज सुबह के अख़बार में / केदारनाथ स… Read More
2018-12-12 11:19
You tore into our land
a crooked line.
That morning
we learned: the dawn
had been bitten by moths,
flying in droves, in madness
towards light. Unsure of the nature
of light, they had consum… Read More
2018-09-24 14:24
Gaze, gaze into my eyes, he said
I gazed.
Take a deep breath, a deep breath, he said
I did.
Now what you see
Is only me
What you hear
is only me
See, it is dark everywhere
You see nothing
Y… Read More
2017-05-29 23:03
I think there is more to life than acquaintance or social relativism. The tribal peoples connect to the earth. People who follow a lunar calendar based traditions seem to be more sensitive… Read More
2016-05-12 06:37
The Ardhanari, Elephanta Island
In that moment I felt only a deep warmth for Khan Bhai: ever faithful, ever sincere.
Our eyes met.
“Salaam” he said, his fingers tracing his thoug… Read More
2015-06-01 06:47
“The greatest creative personality of nineteenth century India” is how the Oxford History of India describes Ram Mohan Roy
A servant of man, pioneer, a cosmopolitan, “Ram… Read More
2015-05-25 23:49
The 1857 Mutiny
Part four and finish of my early historic review toward Hindu nationalism, undertaken when I first arrived in India in an effort to understand her.
To large for one… Read More
2015-05-24 23:34
Part three of my early historic review toward Hindu nationalism, undertaken when I first arrived in India in an effort to understand her.
To large for one post, here is part three… Read More
2015-05-24 00:19
Part two of my early historic review toward Hindu nationalism, undertaken when I first arrived in India in an effort to understand her.
To large for one post, here is part two, from Ra… Read More
2015-05-23 03:29
India is a land of hurt substance and of antique opulence but her full time arrived and now she seeks serenity through the reinvention of her past.
I wrote those words when I first arrived i… Read More
2015-05-11 00:57
Le Triomphe d’Alexandre le Grand Gustav Moreau
At the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris hangs a mysterious incomplete painting The Triumph of Alexander the Great (“L… Read More
2015-05-06 23:03
Knowledge is not knowledge but the appearance of knowledge. Knowledge is only information. It does not transform you, but burdens you down.
The fool is at least innocent in his ignorance. K… Read More
2015-05-02 10:52
No thanks to Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade I am in India.
“Disgusting” spat a bigots description of Sultan Shahryār’s polygamy. “OK disagree if you wish… Read More
2015-03-21 05:02
British India 1893
The power of an idea split the USA from a culture similar to its own. and Pakistan from India. Empire was also an idea of the Enlightenment and Christendom.
Experimen… Read More
2015-03-21 02:58
A trip to Delhi is incomplete without viewing the Government Precinct at Raisina Hill. Past the Martyrs Wall, you look across to Parliament, the Lok Sarbha. There stands, the Viceroy’… Read More
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