Category: Ballads
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The Goatherd
The character–.http://www.amazon.in/Jacob-Hills-Ismita-Tandon-Dhanker/dp/9350296497 Abu khan miyan, And his herd of mountain sheep. They live on the slopes of Kashmir, the paradise on earth. When they say Paradise is lost, it is so true, no longer is joy, or Sufism in the air. The fabric of monotheism be it Shaivaite or Islam, the valley has forgotten it…
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Tale of the brothers– ramakatha
Ramakatha. North Indian houses, believe that Ramayana should be read in the house, as it is a tale of brothers bonding but not Mahabharata. Ramayana is indeed a tale of brothers, Ravana–Kubera Ravana-Kumbhakarana Ravana- vibhishana Vali – sugriva Jatayu-Sampati Rama–Lakshmana Rama-Bharat. Somewhere in this annals poor shatrughna stays forgotten. The Ramayana of uttarkhand talks of…
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Old man time,
I am the old man by the river, if you think I am someone’s grandfather, or the village elder, I could be, but more important, I am the keeper of a memory of people and communities, “stories have changed my dear boy,” I told the man in the grey suit, “there are no more battles…
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Cafe Light.
Two men were sitting at the diner and having dinner. A woman seated in a parked car watched them through the window for a while. She was furious with one of the diners, how dare he sit here leaving his mother alone? She waited a while before she got off the car and walked up…