Month: March 2020
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To Light From Darkness
Look. There, in that direction Can you see that? A huge slab of darkness Like a dark mountain Yes right, that one That’s a mountain of darkness On the other side of that Behind it Yes, right through it There is a light My light! Why, can you not see it? Look right at the […]
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Let me be me
Nothing raises waves now, Inside me, I mean Something surely seems to have quieted Don’t know how, but Waves are not high and violent They… the waves I noticed Had been getting smaller and weaker Until… one day They couldn’t be noticed Now I don’t see any movement Even in the far off horizon My […]
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Affectionately yours
We remember our past either due to associations with some people or because of certain unique unforgetable incidences. Past always comes to our mind not as a date or a period; but as its various association. There is no reason to think about May 3, as a date, but when I know on this day […]
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Reviving Immortality
This is dedicated to a person having practically no significance in the glittering world of cinema. I would not claim him to be a great friend of mine too. He had much more important and closer friends in his life. Late Prabhu Dayal or Prabhuji, was fairly senior to me. In fact on paper Prabhuji […]
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Baba the lion
Out of all the people I have met in my life so far, I was most impressed by the simple personality of just one person, Murlidhar Devidas Amte or Baba Amte, who expired on Feb 9, 2008. Baba had been champion of leprosy affected people. At one point whole world had noticed, recognized and applauded his compassionate […]
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My Grandparents
Pandit Devidas Sharma, my grandfather would be the simplest person I have met in all my life. He was not greatly educated by today’s standards nor did he have a fancy job. Well, during pre-independence days how many commoners could have a fancy degrees or jobs? If one had passed VIII, he was looked up […]
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