On Critical Attitude
The critical attitude Strikes many people as unfruitful That is because they find the state Impervious to their criticism But what in this case is an unfruitful attitude Is merely [...]
June 2007
March 2007
Iruvar
In case you don't know tamil, there are subtitles. In case you know, there are subtitles. Even tamilians would need subtitles to make sense of Iruvar. The scene, the script,the [...]
February 2007
Abirami Abirami…Abirami
Suggested DVD : Kamal, Guna
December 2006
Religion in the East
There in Rangoon I understood that the godswere enemies of the poor human being,just as God is.Gods of alabaster, lying downlike white whales,gods gilded like wheat,serpent gods coiled roundthe crime [...]
To My Party
You have given me fraternity toward the unknown man.You have joined the strength of all the living.You have given me the country again as in a birth.You have given me [...]
Tomato Ketchup
In our country,A woman who writes poetry,Is eyed as an odd fish.Every man presumesThat in her poemsHe is the issue addressed!And since it is not so,He becomes her foe.In this [...]
October 2006
Fleas interest me so much
Fleas interest me so muchthat I let them bite me for hours.They are perfect, ancient, Sanskrit,machines that admit of no appeal.They do not bite to eat,they bite only to jump;they [...]
August 2006
Tonight I can write the saddest lines
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.Write, for example,'The night is shatteredand the blue stars shiver in the distance.'The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.Tonight I can write [...]
A Dog Has Died
My dog has died.I buried him in the gardennext to a rusted old machine.Some day I'll join him right there,but now he's gone with his shaggy coat,his bad manners and [...]
Gentleman Alone
The young maricones and the horny muchachas,The big fat widows delirious from insomnia,The young wives thirty hours' pregnant,And the hoarse tomcats that cross my garden at night,Like a collar of [...]
Poetry
And it was at that age ... Poetry arrivedin search of me. I don't know, I don't know whereit came from, from winter or a river.I don't know how or [...]
May 2006
She
she stayed back to complete a thesis on love she missed the train of life nowadays she is a refugee of the track