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Hindi poet and translator based in Bangalore, India.
Category: Personal
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Well, Kurosawa was not just perfect. He was picture perfect. Satyajit Ray recalls- “The effect of Rashomon on me was electric. I saw it three times on consecutive days, and wondered each time if there was another film anywhere which gave such sustained and dazzling proof of a director’s command over every aspect of film making.”…
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Today is the death anniversary of the great martyr Chandrashekhar Azad- the man who stood against tyranny, the mentor of Bhagat Singh, the reorganizer of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, the chief strategist and executor of Kakori Train Case, attempt to blow up the Viceroy’s train, shooting of Saunders at Lahore to avenge the killing of Lala Lajpat…
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I wrote a good omelet… and ate a hot poem… after loving you Buttoned my car… and drove my coat home… in the rain… after loving you
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
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Today is the day Vikram Sarabhai passed away. He was the man who started the Physical Research Laboratory, the Indian Space Research Organization and Indian Institute of Management. 30 years have passed since the great man left us, and look what we have achieved. India has done well in space research programmes. May it be the numerous satellites…
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 