New Delhi, 13 September 2008, 6.21 pm The first newsflash must have been Beamed about 6.40 pm As my brother called me up from Kerala To see all was well with me and mine. Bombs, he said, had gone off At Gaffar Market Karol Bagh, Central Park Connaught Place, Barakhamba Road, M Block Market GK […]
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Malayala kavitha Arupathukalkku Sesham
https://www.yousendit.com/download/VGljdFdVdkdubVhIRGc9PQ http://www.4shared.com/file/180457647/2058762c/dr_aj_thomas_kerala_kavitha_ar.html This is just a thumbnail sketch. An article on such a vast subject, done with little research, basing mainly on my memory, and impressionistic by nature….Readers, please forgive my audacity. I hope this anticipatory bail plea finds favour with you all….It was published in Kerala Kavitha 2007. I pasted above the link to […]
Fading
My mother’s leathery face and Caved in lips, sans teeth or denture The broken arm in plaster rubbing The side of the left breast once fed me But now turned septic. Her three months In the hospital had got her life back To be snatched away anytime; Death was on the prowl we knew. She […]
Rustic Vignettes
The wind is the same As ever, over the centuries Blowing in stiff, straight draughts Keeping the tree-leaves akimbo And the black-tipped clouds in great, straight streams The sky looks clean-washed and dipped in indigo Hung out to dry The sunshine seems to shimmer more As if it has a life all its own The […]