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....
The roaring waves
craving to gain land
as the casurina sheds.
tears in the rising infant Sun.
Apartheid gathering
into heaps of camphor
I watch it sublimate
as I stand beyond the Nile.
Those men with bushy beards
covering the white patches on their chins
I watch them.
Tall-talks, table-talks and white-talks
I overhear
as I sail on the waters of the Nile
I know for certain
there will come a day
when the creeks curtain
all that is gained in the bay.
I know for certain
the bright white light
will inevitably maintain
unity of the spectral fight.
Mind you, I love mankind.
–U. L. GOURANGA RAO
Dept, of Economics
University of Western Ontario
Landon, Ontario, Canada.