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Celebration

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Tamso Ma Jyotirgamaya

Deepavali decorationsExternal manifestationsAmple sweets and giftsRows of lampsFlames of candlesMagnificent fireworksInvitation to Goddess LakshmiTo bring prosperity and wealth. In this glare and glitter,How many really realizeOn the auspicious dayFar more significant isThe removal of inner darknessAnd ignorance of mind…? The lights of physical worldAre not even worthA ray of inner light of selfThat brings the […]
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New Year Eve

Editor’s Choice Here comes a greetings’ seasonMerrymaking and celebrationEmails, SMSs have replacedThe age old greeting cardsAlthough still preferred by a few. Night long partiesMany sponsored programmesBoth Sober as well as wildIn homes, clubs, hotels and farms…Eat, drink and danceTill fatigue overtakes to the hiltTheir body, mind and soul. People make resolutionsSet targets for self and […]
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Festival of Light Returns

O Diwali, the Festival of LightsWe welcome you here yet againAuspicious five-day celebrationIs every devout Hindu’s aspiration You offer a season of merry-makingWith the fireworks and sparklersRegalia, sweets and splendid giftsStrings of LED lights and traditional diyas Festivities offer till you are aroundMind-boggling days of celebrationMoments of pure joy and togethernessWith friends, relatives and loved […]
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Colours of Life

Colours vanished after you like whispers in the windLeaving behind only monochrome’s time-worn rindPink and blue’s marvel fancy turned misty and murkyLife’s canvas became grayscale, weary and dreary. Ever Since on each Holi eve, I wish colours’ jolly playFor you, rainbow’s dazzling in a vibrant cosmic arrayMay you shine forever in colours, a masterpiece divineThen, […]
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Rajnigandha Revisited

Rajnigandha, night’s sultry whispererUnfolding like an endless esoteric prayerA green stalk, greenish buds and white petalsTo love’s velvety addiction, its fragrance unfurls. For many, it’s a bloom in night’s dark masqueradeBut for him, an egress to memories’ moonlit shadeA symbol of emotions wrapped tight in ivory petalsEchoes of love’s whispers in night’s euphoric surge. In […]
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Atoning Forever

Memories haunt him, like autumn’s stealthy creepWhispers in the nights of what way back did seepAlone in a shipwreck, he on nostalgia’s tidal waveShadows drowning in the blues like a lonely grave. Many faded photographs, letters like fallen leavesEchoes of bygone days, rustling what he believesHe keeps brooding in twilight, shadows intertwineDrowned in nostalgic labyrinth, […]
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Colours of Life

Colours vanished after you like whispers in the windLeaving behind only monochrome’s time-worn rindPink and blue’s marvel fancy turned misty and murkyLife’s canvas became grayscale, weary and dreary. Ever Since on each Holi eve, I wish colours’ jolly playFor you, rainbow’s dazzling in a vibrant cosmic arrayMay you shine forever in colours, a masterpiece divineThen, […]
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Rajnigandha Revisited

Rajnigandha, night’s sultry whispererUnfolding like an endless esoteric prayerA green stalk, greenish buds and white petalsTo love’s velvety addiction, its fragrance unfurls. For many, it’s a bloom in night’s dark masqueradeBut for him, an egress to memories’ moonlit shadeA symbol of emotions wrapped tight in ivory petalsEchoes of love’s whispers in night’s euphoric surge. In […]
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Atoning Forever

Memories haunt him, like autumn’s stealthy creepWhispers in the nights of what way back did seepAlone in a shipwreck, he on nostalgia’s tidal waveShadows drowning in the blues like a lonely grave. Many faded photographs, letters like fallen leavesEchoes of bygone days, rustling what he believesHe keeps brooding in twilight, shadows intertwineDrowned in nostalgic labyrinth, […]
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Hindu, Hinduism and Hindustan: Part LXXV

Pilgrimage-I Nearly all communities and religions in the world attach significance to places which have some connection with any worldly or supernatural act(s) or event(s) of the divine (God) or His messenger(s); the birth, enlightenment or death of founder and saints; sites of the spiritual calling or awakening; supposedly a dwelling or living place of […]
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