This world is full of evils –
When you blame thus
When you declare this aloud
Then I understand
The heat of your anger
Is born of your wounded ego.
Who doesn’t know
There is an eternal conflict
Between good and evil
It is in the very heart of things.
Had it not been so
Could there be a victory of the best?

When you suffer some loss
Don’t accuse your creator
You should know
Whatever is dear
Whatever is heavenly and eternal
We buy at the cost of death.
Any threat of destruction
Is a call to the creative man.
Whatever is best
Rests at the end of your pilgrimage
Very difficult of access
And it urges the intrepid explorer.

I deem myself fortunate
I was born in a world
Which is not blemishless.
Snapping threads and weaving knots
Sorrow, shame and fear
Often set at naught our efforts at harmonies
When I have found these defects
Didn’t I also see the oppressed
Forever and in every age
Crying, keeping alive
And inspiring protests?

I salute the risings of those
Who are trodden down
They are sleepless,
They march ahead through the darkness of night
They come in different names
Armed with ever new weapons
Always victorious
Over obstructions and indignities
And defying death
They are the pilgrims through the apocalypse
I welcome them from the core of my heart.    

September 24, 2006

Transcreation of the poem Birodh from the collection Bithika by Rabindranath Tagore.

Image under license with Gettyimages.com

The Week of September 24, 2006      
A Letter by Kumud Biswas  
A Ray of Light by Amit Monga 
Alone by Clint Sheppard
Black by Wangdi Gyalpo
Conflict by Kumud Biswas
Dreaming High by Amitanshu Vishal 
Eternal Love by Shernaz Wadia 
Fantasy by Sandeep Sen 
Finding Me by Sandeep Sen 
Homecoming by Jayati Gupta
Missing You by Aparna Chatterjee
Nature by Jennifer Marie Bayer
Nostalgic India by Nalini Hebbar
One by Choi Yu Wing Smita
One Almighty in All Forms by TA Ramesh 
The Abettors by Shernaz Wadia 
Unconditional Love by Shobhaa Iyer

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