Category: Ballads
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A little light on Deepavali.
Banditu deepavali siri sobaganu pasarisi lokava belagutali.– this is a popular kannada poem that translates to Deepavali arrives bringing with it abundance and light. We have been celebrating Diwali in the same age old manner for hundreds of years with crackers, oil sweets, heavy unhealthy food gambling and what not… are we really Sunita I…
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Bathukamma@Durgashtami.
Sometime back I was researching the nature related festivals in southern India. The floral tributes of Onam ruled the roast, somewhere between the lots I found a lesser known festival of Telangana One very interesting festival I came across was called the Bathukamma, and it is celebrated in the state of Telangana. This is a…
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Honoring the Father.
Gokarna Aunsi, Kushe Aunsi, The legend of Gokarna is something that every Kannada child is grown up with. We have heard the story of Shiva Bhakta Ravana promising to get Shiva’s atmalinga for his mother, when Shiva gives him the linga he tells him don’t put it on the ground. For it would take root as…
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Th’ writer..coffee.. an’ broken pencil
Writer..Coffee…broken pencil. Ashit looked around, he could see the coffee dispensing machine, the broken pencils in the recycle bin, the writer though was missing. Ashit knew this smell a familiar smell of moving on. The guest would move on, leaving stale memories of them behind. As a house keeper Ashit had seen many of them,…
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Cupid and Psyche
A love story that inspired me There are love stories and love stories, with a hero, a heroine, sometimes, two heroes, and two heroines various permutations and combinations. These are accepted norms of love stories, but then there are love stories. The love story of the soul with life and its romance with romance. That…
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