I jump from ship to ship, / fly dangling from the claws of a huge bird in the sky / till my toes scrape mountain-tips.
‘Shabnam’ is a dewdrop in Persian. Shabnam (1960) is the name of Syed Mujtaba Ali’s passionate love story that stretches beyond the history of nearly a century ago.
“I sing the song of equality– Of a country where fresh joy blossoms in every heart
London, once the centre of the empire where the sun never set, dates back to prehistory with evidence of structures from Mesolithic times.
A journey that shreds castes and creeds to heal the self-esteem of a woman.
If sunflowers shone in the sky and clouds floated in lakes,
A brief history of the creation in verse.
Peach seas murmur with the colours of the setting sun. There are no peach trees here — only
“Today it seems to me that every festival in Santiniketan offered homage to the seasons in some form or other… Much later I learnt that the festivals of Santhals and other Adivasis are the expressions of respect for farming and forest life. There are forms of nature worship based on an advantage of the earth as a primal mother.”
Pink cherry blossoms,
Listen to the swish of the waves. Feel the breeze whisper caresses. See the mangroves stretch
What is the sadness that with
The Emperor wrote a lonely note. In exile, he wept for a grave in his Native land. Colonials
Each night, the sea with the moon croons a lullaby.
And then it rained flowers, then it rained flowers emptying the trees.
