Poem - #20 | A World Of It's Own

A World Of It's Own

At the sight of Keventer's,
My iris prepares itself,
To witness the,
Unending beeline of people,
Scaling their way to
The Times Square,

Of Darjeeling.

The sight of-

Silver steamy Maktoos,

A woman sitting quietly,

Roasting corn.

People from different

Ethnic communities,

Sauntering past with their families,

Pointing their fingers,

Towards the chic clothes,

Sitting proudly on mannequins,

Behind the glass of a shop,

Fascinates the senses.

The aroma of freshly,

Barbequed chicken,

And of finely fried fritters,

Beckons me.

The crazy hubbub-

Of people walking,

Here and there,

Yelling each other's names,

Bargaining with vendors,

Bumping into one another,

Apologizing with a smile.

Although exasperating,

Is wonderful to tune in.

Reaching the summit,

The eye rolls from,

One corner to the other,

To marvel a panorama.

A picturesque frame,

Of colours and diversity,

Which never tends,

To saturate one's heart.

The sweet and sulky sounds,

Harmonise so perfectly,

As if an orchestra was performing,

In the distance.

Sitting down on those,

Ever-supportive benches-

The ones who drop their smiles,

As you sit there weeping.

Ones who embrace you,

Enjoying your happiness.

I begin to lose all worries,

As I take in the aesthetic,

Of the Connaught Place,

Of Darjeeling.

~ Pratham

Comments

Alireza Taheri Araghi | The Immortals of Tehran

BLURB: As a child living in his family's apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather's every mesmerizing word. On the day of his father's death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse . . . and the boy's own fated role in the story. Ahmad grows up to suspect that something must be interfering with his family, as he struggles to hold them together through decades of famine, loss, and political turmoil in Iran. As the world transforms around him, each turn of Ahmad's life is a surprise: from street brawler, to father of two unusually gifted daughters; from radical poet, to politician with a target on his back. These lives, and the many unforgettable stories alongside his, converge and catch fire at the center of the Revolution. Exploring the brutality of history while conjuring the astonishment of magical realism, The Immortals of Tehran is a novel about the incan...

Thought - #1 |Who is God?

Who is God? Who in this diverse world of ours hasn't heard about Him, a greater power above us all, a Being known to many by an infinite names. A Creator in some religions, a Destroyer in others, an entity in some and a force, energy in others. The very notion of God comes the the everlasting but yet the most preliminary and fundamental question that our human mind has been able to conceive. Who made us? And thus the paradoxical answer follows; someone, God. Why paradoxical? Because if we exist then it follows that their must be a creator else nothing makes sense. Our very existence proves the existence of the One. Although this mind boggling topic, also one of the most controversial ones to be accurate, has been there since we achieved self-awareness the truth is that it may never be answered. Yet is that all? Do we only see God as our creator or is there something more to it, a latent truth buried deep within our minds. It is a fact that it is our very human ...

Devdutt Pattanaik Reads | Devlok (and many more)

On The Book It's a book on the Hindu mythological tales of India. He tells us about the Vedas, the Purans and the untold and forgotten stories of our Gods and Goddesses. Originally the author Devdutt Pattanaik was interviewed by the Epic Channel (A channel in India), where he discusses about Hindu Mythology. It's a informative book which is like the oversimplified version of the Vedas and the Puranas. The book neveer feels superfluous or boring at all. Chapters This book review is a lot different than all my other reviews as this book is not a novel or a story. It's a series of interviews discussing folk tales. He tells that he calls The Vedas and The Puranas mythological scriptures because he says that the word mythology is wrongly comprehended. Mythology according to him is a belief present in a certain group of people which cannot be disproven or is better not tried to be meddled with. He tell us how seas and oceans were formed, how the Vindyas came to be...

The Few Creators : Creating Creators

Search This Blog