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....
I opened the mysterious book
that men call Life,
and scanned through it page after page
variously rife
With laughters, loves, and luminous joys
annal’d starwhite
That whither seem’d beside the lamp
shedding pale light,
When a sudden crackling, the flame
luridly glowed
and lit the space betwixt the lines
and strongly showed
deceipts, greeds, lusts, hopes, despairs, hates
in mingled rout–
I shrank aghast: a moth dash’d past,
the lamp flared out!
–Reprinted from
Triveni, Jan.-Feb. 1933