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Hindi poet and translator based in Bangalore, India.
Category: Culture
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You ask how I spend my time I nestle against a treetrunk and listen to autumn winds in the pines all night and day. Shantung wine can’t get me drunk. The local poets bore me. My thoughts remain with you, like the Wen River, endlessly flowing. — Li Po (translated by Hamil).
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Today is Independence day. The day some of us wait so eagerly for! The day, I as a child never missed the flag hoisting ceremony on TV. The day, I hoisted flag in my colony and distributed sweets among my neighbours. The day I never missed the afternoon film on Doordarshan. Thanks to Sankalp, the day has…
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I understand that the past two years have been horrible in terms of scams, scandals and inflation. But it has given us something that we have fought for a long time – ‘dignity’. An open letter to the vibrant and dignified, emerging Indian middle classes. Read my latest article on the NRI.
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“Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.” -Mark Kurlansky (American journalist and writer)
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We all were taught in school that humans have five senses. They are sound, sight, touch, smell and taste. Now forget what you studied and give it a serious thought. Do humans really have just five senses? By definition, senses are feelings that allow you to navigate your environment. In reality, people do have more than five senses.
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 