Past the rocks that flank the road Dawn by dawn I pass her abode Whose visage adorns the tendrils and leaves Through them her form beams and sieves. In the eyes that glitter There is an eloquence atwitter – Unspoken but unrepressed, It presses on me the trying test. And I on my part, with…
Tag: EULOGIES
A Friend Called Banno
She sits on a rock gazing into the hollow, and in her eyes flashes the story of not one but two lives. A true survivor herself, she hails from a place where her sisters’ voices once resounded in the marshy meadows, but in the now quiet grasses she remains restfully as of the type whom the…
Idol Worship
In all my limited wisdom, I claim to be secular, and that is not by the connotation that we Indians have conjured for our political furtherance, but in the actual unalloyed lexical sense as known in the Occident. I concede that, during embattled times, as the unveiling day of the frighteningly ugly exam results drew…
The Light of the World
Just the other day I read astounded the report of a ‘dead’ baby “coming alive” after his mother put him to her bosom and told him her grand plans for his future. Doctors were suitably gobsmacked as they saw the very infant they had pronounced as being in an eternal rest hours before, coming…
She Grabs You!
I have always believed in the power of dreams. I dreamed in school, for example, snoozing in class and it saved me the uptake. I then dreamed straight through the laboratory periods at college and that did me a lot of good too; saved me the malodours. When my liaison with tigers…
The Orange Ghost
Pigmented in Paradise, her aureate skin resonates with ether, as her fiery eyes pierce the soul. The spectre of the dark morphs into a spectacle in light as the rock beneath her feet throbs to the touch of her cushy paw. Her fur, coloured sienna by the caressing grass, escapes the folds of vision like…
The Path Ahead
The path that beckons Abounds with patches of darkness and light And threatens to mire you In a bog unreckoned. But you stride forward with conviction and might May your heart with knowledge brook That the darkness will protect you; And the light will give you the power to protect.
A Dream in Motion
It is anyway surreal to witness the phenomenal magnetism of a wild tiger roaming with absolute authority and freedom in its world, which it knows more intimately than one can imagine, down to the location of each bend, and position of each stone around. But there’s something even more magical when a tiger moves…
Sashaying to Immortality
With her sinuous gait, she will sashay down the ramp and ease herself into your heart’s precincts. You pinch your skin and rub your eyes in disbelief, for this is too wonderful to be true. But she is real, like the moon, beautiful, large and glowing. You try to explain her away as a…
Chutzpah
When the genetics of an intrepid warrior and an insouciant mother are spliced, the engendered bundle of joy is likely a carrier of much unbridled chutzpah who steps on the ‘crossing roads’ with the authority of a sheriff, the panache of a beauty pageant contestant, and the combined effect of an asphalt-laying machine:…
The Magic of the Tiger
Tigers have been for millenia strongly associated with myth, religion and spirituality, particularly as the steed of Goddess Durga, the destroyer of evil. Ancient peoples of the Indian jungles believed tigers to possess supernatural powers, and revered them for the same as divine protectors against unforeseeable calamities. In fact the Bhagavad Gita professes such: “Do…
A Message from a Tigress
“O man of ineptitude, if you can’t see my beauty, look, at least, into my eyes, and you shall see your own pulchritude. Have the sagacity to save my abode, and you shall save your own world. Life but gives many chances; grasp one. Grasp not the axe to sever me into oblivion, for…
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