Handful of Grain: Poetry by Anuradha Majumdar
the day tradesfor a handful of grains,for a bouquet of flowersgathered by a child,watching the flagrant citiesthat stalk our disquiet…. Read more …
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Inspired Poems: Change of Guard: Tracking
Bilingual anthology by Anuradha Majumdar Change of Guard: Tracking Vyasa The kingdom falls off the summit of heaven,the flute player warms the wind. Great behemoths shudder teetering off cliffswhere the white-sun plays with a summer solstice eve. Another man killed, another pinnacle falls,dust to dust, this, once the first of sovereigns…. Click here to read […]
Beyond the Night: By Anu Majumdar
Sometimes I open the window and the dusk rain touches my face,a lightness on the edges of knowingthat when this frozen summer fails, children lockedwithout knowledge of tomorrow’s lightwill leap as the sun breaks, molten through their corridors,night fleeing rapidly from their eyes –while mothers and fathers hurtling with the hurricane will struggleto stand still, […]
An Inside Story By Anuradha Majumdar
Maharaj-ji was Gautama’s personal moron, or a shared man-servant, when he chose to think otherwise. It was a regular job, nine to five, perks and bonus. But there were times when he tired of it. On such days he turned to Ero Nus, Gautama’s flat mate, for solace and random wisdom. ‘Maharaj-ji,’ Ero Nus obliged […]
The Thing, The Whole Thing, And Nothing But The Thing – Dominique Jacques Bridges The Past and Future
It’s not often, in the largely insular world of modern art, that a work is allowed to simply speak for itself. It’s also a strange fact that many contemporary works can’t really speak for themselves, for they are grounded in what are essentially literary ideas; even avowed geniuses like Twombly, Basquiat and Ai Weiwei could […]
Blessings
by Andrew Hinton, Owen Ó Súilleabháin & David Whyte Click here to view the film BlessingsDavid Whyte’s “Blessing” poems are interpreted through a visual journey across the Irish landscape in this short film by Emmy-winning filmmaker Andrew Hinton. Musician and composer Owen Ó Súilleabháin, who has collaborated with David Whyte for over a decade, offers […]
Poetry with Prakriti
About the Event Keki N. Daruwalla (1937–) has published nine volumes of poetry, one novel, a novella and three collections of Short fiction. Daruwalla wrote his Masters in literature from Punjab University. He went as a Visiting Fellow under the Colombo Plan to Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford (1980-81). He joined the IPS in 1958. He was a part of […]
Mystical Poetry of Bauls: Presented by Parvathy Baul
Please join us Friday, October 9, 2020 at 7:30 pm US EST (Saturday, October 10, 1:30 am CEST & 5:00 am IST) The evening, presented by The Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the Yale South Asian Studies Council, will be brimming with songs and poetry. SACSA Board Member and Yale Alumni, Brinda Govindan will […]
Collective Trauma Summit, Sept 22 – Oct 1, 2020
Collective Trauma Summit: A 10-day online event to explore methods for working with unresolved and hidden trauma in individuals, communities, and society. With a special place for the role of music, the arts, and poetry for collective healing. Includes readings by poets such as Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirshfield and David Whyte. Sept 22 – Oct 1, […]
And Peace Shall Return — A Short Story by Ben Okri
Episode Description We commissioned four authors to approach the theme of apocalypse through fiction, from the perspectives of past, present, and future. Our fourth and final installment is a short story by Ben Okri, entitled And Peace Shall Return. Ben is a Nigerian poet, novelist, and playwright whose many books and poetry collections include Prayer […]
#CinemaOfResistance Weekly Screening – ‘Had Anhad’
#CinemaOfResistanceWeeklyScreeningThis week we present Shabnam Virman’s Had Anhad (Bounded Boundless-Journeys with Ram and Kabir). In these deeply polarised times when the politics of hate reigns supreme, what can contemporary India learn from Kabir who declared that he is neither a Hindu nor a Muslim? Online screening of the film Had Anhad (Bounded Boundless-Journeys with Ram […]
Jill Henis offers free kitchen ballet lessons online!
Vancouver-based Jill Henis offers free kitchen ballet lessons on her Facebook page. They are suitable for adult beginners and she often begins with somatic practices and poetry.
Virtual tour of The Japanese garden of peace, Auroville.
Dear Friends and Family,I hope each of you are in Good Health and Peace during this difficult and intense time in the world. Here in Auroville we are under lockdown like many of you around the world, doing our best to keep everyone healthy and calm despite the fear and uncertainty that is before us. […]
Roger Harris leaves his body, 30/3/2020
Roger Harris This is to inform the community that our dear and long-term friend and brother Roger Harris (USA) left his body today at the age of 64 in his Prarthana apartment at 4.45am due to advanced lung cancer. Close friends that had been with him the days before, described him as absolutely lucid, lively, […]
“A World Without Walls” World poetry movement
We are happy to announce that Auroville has joined the World Poetry Movement in February 2019 on the 24Th at SAWCHU-Bharat Nivas for : “A World Without Walls” There have been 410 Cities in the World and 1000 people participating . Here we have Mime , Poets in Different Languages, Humdrum music and more…
TROVADORES
TROVADORES Joining the World Poetry Movement for “A World Without Walls ” Music and Poetry in Different Languages Sunday the 24Th . at 5,30 pm at BHARAT NIVAS C.A.L.I (House of Latinamerica.India ) For the I.Z . AMERICA. Everybody Welcome
Poetry and Peace – Pondicherry Poets
CREATIVE WRITING PLAYGROUND!
CREATIVE WRITING PLAYGROUND! 12 /13 / 14 of October. From 4 to 6pm Do you want to write a story just for the fun of it but you don’t know how to start? Do you feel you have “something to write” inside of you but you do not know what it is and how to […]
TROVADORES: Music and Poetry in Different Languages
TROVADORES: Music and Poetry in Different Languages Come and share with us your own poems or the ones you love Wednesday 5 September – 5:30pm at Savitri Bhavan
Second issue of Vaasal, the magazine in English about Tamil culture, language and society in Auroville
We are happy to announce the latest issue of Vaasal, the magazine in English about Tamil culture, language and society in Auroville. This new birthday issue includes: – Thirukural, and the Wisdom of the Tamil Vedas – A Special Birthday greeting from the poetess Avaiyyar – Interview with Varadharajan, Mother’s outreach worker – New short […]
‘StoryYoga for Children’: website and audio-stories by Noel
I would like to take the opportunity to share with all of you that I have a new website and blog called StoryYoga for Children which is devoted to sharing my children’s stories. You can visit it at www.storyyoga.wordpress.com . There you will find audio narrated stories that you can experience, including my children’s book Yaroslava’s Flowers with full color illustrations. […]
French Theater 17th March at Bharat Nivas
The Pavillon de France and Auroville International France presents in collaboration with the French Theater Company “Le PasSage”: AND YET IT IS THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN French Theater Public Rehearsal In French only Interpretation and staging: Jean-Paul Sermendiras and Olivier Ythier Saturday 17th March 2018 at 8pm, Bharat Nivas – International Zone – Auroville duration […]
Review: Corinne at The 6th Chittorgarh Art Festival
19 Aurovilian artists in Rajasthan… The 6th Chittorgarh Art festival had the beginning of a typical Indian travel story. You had to be ready at all times for the unexpected: No plane tickets until one day before departure….. Then, we were late for the plane…but so was the plane. Our arrival in the middle of […]
Gitanjali concert at Bharat Nivas, 6th January
Saturday, 6th January 2018. At 7:30 pm (1 hour approximately) at Bhoomika, behind KalaKendra, Bharat Nivas A bouquet of songs, primarily written by poet laureate Tagore, that are poetry and essentially spiritual, along with Sanskrit hymns from the Rig Veda. By Damyanti Datta, working as an Executive Editor with India Today magazine in Delhi, who specialised […]
KAVI & KAVYA
Unity Pavilion is launching a series of Poetry Reading sessions where we collectively enjoy the beauty and subtlety of mystic poetry by some of the very famous Indian Poets of the 12th to 19th century: Rumi, Tukaram, Kabir, Mirabai, Nazrul, Tagore, Subramania Bharati and Sri Aurobindo and many more. Among our readers are accomplished actors, […]