Here is wishing you all a happy Indian new year vijaya (lunar tomorrow and solar after three days). Here are some poems I wrote. The name of the metre too is vijaya!
యుగాదినుండియున్ - యుగాదియు వచ్చున్ - Since time immemorial, the new year returns
యుగాది నేడిలన్ - హొరంగుల వచ్చెన్ - Today is the new year's day in all its glory
This is a poem I wrote years ago which may be found at http://www.uramamurthy.com/mohan_gems.html as a part of "Today's Beautiful Gem".
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No time for rangOlis, but here are translations to some love poems I wrote two years ago in Telugu. Enjoy, Happy Valentine's day! Regards! - mOhana
In the restaurant
they were seated facing each other
While their lips were sealed
the eyes were busy exchanging glances
While the hearts were warming
the coffee was getting colder
The flies buzzing around
I am giving the links to my article on melika muggulu (chikku kOlangaL or knotted patterns) in the latest November issue of the telugu online journal eemaaTa. The top link is in telugu script and the bottom one is its English transliteration. More than half the material has already been published here. But there is some fresh material.
The title I gave may look a bit strange. It will become obvious after some time. virahAnka was a Sanskrit prosodist who lived during the sixth or seventh century. Prosody is the science and art of writing poetry. Prosody basically can be divided in two ways - akshara and mAtra. akshara Chandassu depends upon a series of long and short syllables in a line. mAtrA Chandassu depends on syllabic instants. The time taken to utter a short syllable like ma is one mAtra (I) or kala and the time to utter a long syllable like maa is two mAtrAs (U or S).
O beautiful swan, why don't you ask Her to explain me the art of drawing pretty pictures?
O beautiful peacock, why don't you ask Her to teach me the art of dancing?
O beautiful parrot, why don't you ask Her to make me write a wonderful book of poetry?
O beautiful veeNA, why don't you ask Her to give me the voice to sing melodious songs?
Yesterday, while studying carefully one of the rangOlis displayed, an idea struck me and the result is the possibility of an entirely new class of rangOlis. I will explain the basic principles in this blog and later on give a few more examples in the regular uploads. Let us take a small square with horizontal and vertical lines. Let us rotate it by 45 degrees and let us place such a square and call it 1 (Fig. a). Below 1, let us place another similar square so that the corners touch and let us call it 2. By the side of 2 we place 3 on the left and 4 four on the right.
Today memories of my youth are flooding me. Those days, there was no TV or cable, only the radio, the All India Radio and the newspapers. One has to tune into the radio to follow the game of cricket. That too, a person like me did not have a radio or even electricity in the house. I had to go to a friend’s house or to the college hostel to listen to the running commentary. It is during this period that a comet blazed the Indian skies in the form of the Nawab of Pataudi, the last Nawab of Pataudi.
Some dates in history do not need to have a year tag. They are always etched in our mind. Such a one is September 11. It means 9/11/2001. The history of this country as well as the world changed from that date. Everyone has been affected in one way or other since that day. Be it removing the shoes or being touched at all the unwanted places in the body at the airport has become a ritual now. Today is the sad anniversary that marks ten years of the trauma. The common question on everyone's mouth today is - where were you on that day?
On the occasion of the Indian Independence day, greetings and good wishes! Here is an old poem of mine entitled "Pulse of India". You may read this and many more at http://www.uramamurthy.com/mohan_gems.html
Pulse of India -
Where can you listen to the pulse of India?
Where, with bowed heads and folded hands,
people greet the rising sun
