#Festivals2021 Hurt! They Hurt!

Spoken Poetry videos and write-ups in theQuint.com

 Starting with the most recent:

1. On India’s Republic Day and Nostalgia, Jan2022: 

https://www.thequint.com/us-nri-news/memories-golden-indian-american-poet-nostalgic-poem-republic-day

2. On the Essence of the year 2021:

https://www.thequint.com/us-nri-news/a-poem-on-the-oxygen-that-we-once-took-for-granted-covid-second-wave-2021

3. On Delhi, pollution add the green solution:

https://www.thequint.com/us-nri-news/delhi-pollution-clogged-lungs-golden-heart-indian-american-poem-beloved-dilli

4. On Gandhi and non-Violence: 

https://www.thequint.com/us-nri-news/gandhi-jayanti-poem-tribute-non-violence

It Rained a Lot That Day

It rained a lot that day,

that day, when another Draupadi cried for 

the hundredth time

for her disrobed dignity,

when another Sita cried for 

the thousandth time 

for her crushed confidence

and when another 

Lucy

cried for the millionth time 

upon hearing that locker room guffaw

about her hem line, 

her neck line

her walk

her talk

it rained so hard

deafening the forests 

and the cities and

the villages

and then when it stopped to rain,

they didn't know where to sow a seed 

a single seed

for by now 

the earth had dried 

the clouds had blown away

and only dry, brittle and forever parched earth remained,

to burn in it's own hell.

 

The Cats

 

🐱🐱

The cats have left the house,

one by one.

                              They came in groups too. 

first the lone mother,

                                                                   and then one day, 

her litter,

                         of four.

                                   One of them died, shortly after birth,

                                                         without a wail or a whimper.

Just lay there still. I thought the mother was eating this one, till I saw she was just internalizing this one, for whom the exterior of her mother's body had been harsh, unlivable, cold and cruel?

We disposed the dead kitten--we the humans in the mother cat's life. In the

                                             end, that house stands aloof, unlived, and cold.

                                                     All the cats have left.

...starting Sustainability, with Self-sufficiency in the backyard!

 Fruits of Labor--always the SWEETEST!

(Summer 2021!)

The Start of a Green-Thumb Aspiration!

Writing on this and that, here and there.....

Some of My Recent Blogposts as a Guest Contributor (Because non-fiction is where we live, and fiction is where we dream!): 

v Why Vote? https://www.edforsd.org/post/seven-habits-of-highly-effective-u-s-citizens

v Pandemic Lockdown: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/covid19-teachable-moments/

v Kamala Harris: https://americankahani.com/perspectives/whats-in-a-middle-name-the-significance-of-devi-in-kamala-harriss-name/ 

v Sustainability: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/color-coded-hotel-towels/

v Summer-Slide: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/13-ways-to-beat-the-heat-and-sabotage-the-summer-slide/

v That Quintessential Sari: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/sorry-in-a-sari/

v Dubai: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/dubai-demystified/

The Green Cover We Cherish So Much

 

Poetry in JCFPL

A poetry to raise a toast to the sense of community that gets sealed in a time of crisis!

tinyurl.com/jcpoetry2021

....When the water of the Hudson rises....