Wednesday, December 26, 2007
An Evening with Prof. Bhat
Prof. Chandrasekhar Bhat teaches Indian Diaspora at University of Hyderabad, from where I received my Masters of Arts degree in Sociology. I spent a wonderfully memerable evening with Prof. Bhat and his wife in Sentosa Island. He was visiting Kuala Lumpur for the Indian Diaspora Conference organised by GOPIO. He found some time to visit Singapore, where Amit ji and Rashmi ji gave me the opportunity to meet them and discuss about my time and experience in Hyderabad.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
ISA Ph.D Laboratory in Nigeria
International Sociological Association organised its seventh Laboratory for Ph.D students in social sciences at the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria between November 18 and November 24. Students from various parts of the world presented and discussed their doctoral work. It was an interesting and wonderful experience to listen to other people's work and about other countries.
On the Banks of the River Ganges
On the banks of a holy river
The Ganges winds round and round
Twirling twisting shapes
Rising waves
Floating flowers
A conch shell the distance blows
A call beckoning asleep, arise
Raising rising mantra
Folded hands bowed heads Before the rising lord
Salute the sun
Saffroned splendour
Welcome the birth of daylight
A ray of sunshine joy to bring every life guide
Farewell night a tired traveller
Your part is done moments daylight entered
A lone woman sitting on a rock
Looks into water deep eyes
Searching searching for a silence....
What says the river today
What does she hear
Floating fragments waves bring
Lost flowers a light swimming bravely
Whose prayers are these
Who places a tiny light upon the heart
Of flowing floating river of might
Why do these flowers tremble to touch every ripple of water
Speckled dew, drops her eyes
Reverberating sounds mingled voices
Past and present
Merging streams of sound, waking light of dawn
Many answered dreams float in image waters Ganges
Eyes penetrate hidden depths silent bosom
A land of many wonders
Oceans away
Nestled asleep at the feet of the mighty Himalaya
Ganges rests with her sisters in deep sleep
And when torrid currents overcome an outside world too harsh
Waves of tapestry she lends covering naked bodies of grief.
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@ Kavita in "An Amorphous Melody"
Love
There is a game of life people play
There is no turning back
With love it begins with love it must end
It is a charmed circle of life
From the silence of the womb
To the silent sounds of earth feet tread
Where is the choice
Where is the reason
Where is the wisdom
Who begins this play
Lights the way
Is waiting at the end.
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@ Kavita in "An Amorphous Melody"
There is no turning back
With love it begins with love it must end
It is a charmed circle of life
From the silence of the womb
To the silent sounds of earth feet tread
Where is the choice
Where is the reason
Where is the wisdom
Who begins this play
Lights the way
Is waiting at the end.
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@ Kavita in "An Amorphous Melody"
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