India : Coffee,Usha Kishore,Vedas,and my suburban-sitar

FOCUS – Poetising IndianHeritage

Poetising Indian Heritage, my contribution,thank you so much Usha Kishore, guest Editor, Muse India, E-Journal, celebrating in this issue,Indian life, from Myths and Heritage, to coffee,temples, music, dance … For more read :http://www.museindia.com/index.asp

Extract :

Rayla Noel

Silences: Rayla Noel

Silences (from Naked Prayers)

Because more often than not,
I begin not to speak, and start to feel
the pulse of an earth dying to be heard,
the voice of my homes
homes i forgot i had
brothers and sisters i left, in my pursuit of
‘ peace’..
forgive me…my silence
teach me how to speak
again.
please.

Sitar Player

My father and I sat in the winter sun
yesterday; his eyes warm with Life
and I wondered that he could be like that
after so much illness, but Joy is a terrific
contagion

and I know Peace is a Sword, piercing thru’
striking Chords we chide, hide within our hushed
celebrations of Life.. Do you hear it seep-warm
stirring waiting – ah Joy is a terrific contagion
rearing Fires ‘ ...where the Head is held high and the mind
fearless…*

* where the mind is without fear … Rabindranath Tagore..

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Focus – Poetising Indian Heritage

Editorial Usha KishorePoetry Ambereen Visharam Ami Kaye Arundhati Subramanian Ashoka Sen Bashabi Fraser Brian D’Arcy Debjani Chatterjee Karthika Naïr Kavita Jindal Mani Rao Rayla Noel Richa Joshi Pandey Rizio Yohannan Raj Shanta Acharya Soumyen Maitra Sudeep Sen Tabish Khair Usha Kishore Vivekanand Jha Winston Plowes Translations Debjani Chatterjee: Of Sanjay Bhattacharya (Bengali) Priya Sarukkai-Chabria: Of Aandaal (Tamil) Shankar Rajaraman and Venetia Kotamraju: Of Gangadevi (Sanskrit) Santhosh Alex: Of Rishabha Deo Sharma and Badrinarayan (Hindi) Santosh Alex: Of Savithri Rajeevan & Abhirami (Malayalam) Sarita Varma: Of Manuj Brahmapaad (Malayalam) Usha Kishore: Of Kalidasa (Sanskrit)Essays Kameshwari Ayyagari: ‘Sarojini Naidu – Poetising Indian Heritage’ Priya Sarukkai Chabria: ‘My Many Ramayanas’ Sutapa Chaudhuri: ‘Radha Poems of Sarojini Naidu’

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