Category: Ballads
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Goan Reader’s club — discussing the Devsar.
Recently, an aunt told me some stories of a ghost / spirit that used to stay in the forests around some of the villages in Goa long ago when her mother was a young woman – my aunt is in her eighties now – I tried looking up this word devsaar / deosaar? But I…
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Arrows
An interesting comparison. Rama had only four arrows, each arrow would cleanse itself in the sarayu after use and return to Rama’s quiver. The arrow would manifest its use according to the need. The arrow of Jambupati was poisonous and magical, it could transform into anything at all and no one could match its power.It…
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The Story of Jambupati
from the Pali cannon,
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Pakhwaj.
An instrument that always reminds me of the mrdangam. It is either played solo or as the all-important time and rhythm keeper of traditional performing arts. The young Pakhwaj Player Pratap Awadh who accompanied Sri.Bah’uddin Dagar during his sessions at the goa university shared with us the mythology of the instrument— The divine designer Vishwakarma’s…
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Lily Livered.
In a moment Dasappa and Belliamma’s world came crashing down.
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Yeravad1975
#432 words. Karavaki is the sanskrit word for a prisoner. we are all prisoners of our own minds. This is the stage one of Karavaki’s step to free dom.
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