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Evergreen Leaves

Evergreen Leaves

http://arachnid.wordpress.com

A blog on art, aesthetics, poetry, religion and philosophy. From time to time, there will be present some other shades of my thoughts as well.

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  • I, Motherland

    Posted on Sunday September 6th, 2009 at 22:43 in art, india, poetry, society, literature, history

    Born a few thousand years old. Aged by fate and heritage, maturing in subjectivities of history. Thus I stand amidst others, who, like myself, stand testimony to distances of time. Separated from the contemporary by extraordinary dimensions: I behold...

  • Ritualistic Animal Sacrifice in Ancient India

    Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 10:22 in religion, india, society, history, hinduism, nationalism, rituals, vedas, rig veda

    To the common Hindu, the very idea of killing a cow – an animal considered to be holy in their religious tradition – is capable of sending a chill down the spine. To regard a cow as a holy animal is a very deep-rooted belief and an unques...

  • The India outside India – I

    Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 17:18 in religion, india, society, literature, philosophy, history, hinduism, perspective, zoroastrianism, spiritualism, vedas, sanskrit

    The Vedas and the vedic knowledge were born in India. As time has flown by, many natural calamities and socio-political upheavals have modified the picture of this landmass to a large extent. But, in spite of this external transformation, there conti...

  • Staring into the night

    Posted on Saturday May 16th, 2009 at 19:15 in art, poetry, literature, darkness, night

    At the limits of the visible world abilities stand dismayed. Amidst the dark vegetation, perhaps from the fringes of opacity, blinks the inebriated firefly. In her own swirls is lost the graceful danseuse — my drunken blood. Staring into the nigh...

  • River Saraswati

    Posted on Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 at 09:49 in india, society, history, theory, nationalism, geology, saraswati

    Prologue: Myths, if our schoolbooks are to be believed, are all the foundation ancient India stands on.  If our eminent historians have it entirely their way, soon our children shall believe that ancient India was a concept born out of jingoism, opi...

  • The Premio Dardos Award

    Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 00:45 in art

    The Premio Dardos Award? The Dardos Award is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. These stamps were created with the intention of promoting fraternization...

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This blog is currently rated a 4.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

cduck19802002

4 stars Charles Rey

Your style is lucid. Your thoughts ease into prose elegantly. The explanations are almost as enjoyable as the poems.
Continue to write.

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