Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
All night waiting in an empty house
Under the roof that rusted, by the
mud-chinked walls, a yawning fire-place,
a man of nervous temperament waiting
the broken pauper rehearsing
to be or not to be.
He said
–There was a prostitute under the lamp,
the baby beggar in the gutter, but
we are poor creatures,
All of us……..
The sweater’s victim
“Sewing at once, with a double thread,
a shroud as well as a shirt,”
dreadful ghastly facts.
A little child, staggering with exhaustion
numb with agony, knowing
no hope but the grave.
But I have seen the mother
weary and weeping, smitten with the
mortal hunger of her babes;
making her choice between the brothel
and the lake....