Worship
Nowadays Kali only my soul drapes around You as worship No longer giving You a bath, decking You up feeding ...
Kanha
Kanha! Black darling of Vrindavan! They are celebrating Your birthday today They have washed You with scented waters Dressing You...
How ancient Indians decoded the mathematics of democracy
One hundred percent is the whole of humanity. From its first recorded history, human society has continually experimented with methods...
Ode of Mahisha
I sort out my luggage before this trip The bookshelves of knowledge I no longer have any need for The...
Possession
What do I possess in this world ? The Sunsets are mine and all the Moonrises Even the fugitive one...
Lament of Mahisha
Yes I have waited through All these days of battle And nights of hunger When I pined for you Fantasised...
Health in the Vedic Age
The traditional Indian health system is called Ayurveda or the science of Long Life. There is a predominance of the...
Mahabalipuram
Mahabalipuram There were four stately temples in me the sea dedicated by four warriors No longer can I remember which...
Avanamcode and the timeless teachings of Aadi Shankara
Sri Aadi Shankara is easily among the most famous of Indian philosopher saints. His contribution to literature is stupendous, especially...
The silence of conversation
There will come a time my beloved When my most intense conversations with you are carried out in silence The...
Call of the sea
We had swung in a primal amniotic sea spewed out to a dry land Memory failed, yet the body never...
Beautiful black
The shy pink of the dawn rises from the midnight black The yellow tendrils of the Sun clamber up a...
Silence
What will you say When they ask the reasons for your silence? Were you too dense to catch thoughts shouted...
Enduring devotion
Countless times have I told You of my love How many times will You reject me so that fed up,...
Navarathri Winter
If love was just that thing communicated in silence A sculpture made of dewdrops and dreams And tears kissed away...
Triumph in loss
I lost my confidence in myself as a warrior who defeated Indra I lost my army, my kinsmen, kingdom Along...
Devi
Devi Kanha! Milking the cows was devotion to you The Milk my Naivedyam for my ever hungry Lord The clank...
Till next birth, my love
The same Sun that clambers up The East and slide down the West to unfailing pop up the next dawn...
SREE RADHA
Who would call it wrong ? This beating of the heart like a thousand kettle drums My mad search for...
Vrindavan
All Vrindavan was just A backdrop for You And Your various loves The absorbed love of Yashoda The quiet...
Migrant Musings
This is a country for the rich whose work we willingly do The summers are so hot We inhale the...
Migrant Pain
My father, reeking of sweat and liquor Beat up my mother and my sisters Reserving just a shove for me...
The Demon
In the land where cows are revered I was the bull, used as a stud for long and then castrated...
Ode to Ma
Ma Kali, everything was just You And though people liked to refer to You With different names I learned my...
