Defiance

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/29/2012 6:21:41 PM

'Defying all things pre-written - Faith waltzes up in - Prying good memories away - From the clutches of wickedness…'

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Hope…

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/28/2012 6:07:28 PM

'As how a bud blossoms - With the hope of living on in splendor and fragrance - So does each dusk morph into a dawn - With the hope of persevering on to eternity…'

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/27/2012 6:35:44 AM

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Nothingness

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/27/2012 6:03:40 AM

'Earth - nurtures kindred souls - torn between delusional choices - that the magic wand of destiny offers - to stand out on a throne of uniqueness - or to dissolve into the oceans of nothingness'

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Perched…

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/27/2012 4:56:32 AM

'She is perched on the realms of her memories - looking out into the horizons of her dreams - awaiting new beginnings - and persevering in her faith…'

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Existence…

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/21/2012 7:10:38 AM

'do everything - do nothing - like particles of antimatter in a canister – suspended between opposing magnetic fields..'

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Life!

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/21/2012 6:56:13 AM

'To sigh - to soar - to sink - to be one speck among a million others - to finally see the pointlessness of it all – life!'

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Paper chips

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/16/2012 12:38:41 PM

'A blob of paper chips - bobbing up and down in the waves of time - there’s no respite in sight - as the shores are mired in hopelessness…'

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Annapurna Devi & Ravi Shankar: The tragedy of a relationship

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/16/2012 12:20:37 PM

'From an article I happened to come across, on the life of Annapurna Devi, affectionately called Maa by her students. Deeply thought-provoking and haunting, this write-up was something that I could not get my mind away from… In August 2000, Ravi Shankar’s first wife, the reclusive surbahar virtuoso Annapurna Devi, gave Man’s World a rare [...]'

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/16/2012 12:11:13 PM

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On a high note…

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 12/6/2012 3:01:35 AM

'Carnatic Music and Hindustani Music – some tell me that both of these music forms are indigenous to India, although some historians consider Hindustani music to have had Persian influences. I’ve learnt Carnatic music for about nine years (‘89-‘98) and Hindustani music for about a year. My roots with Carnatic music run deeper than my [...]'

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TOI : Speaking Tree : Bhagavad Gita – Chapter XI

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 9/26/2012 10:45:00 AM

'Came across this write-up by Jaya Row in the Speaking Tree feature column in an old edition of The Times of India. Arjuna has heard of Krsna’s divine glories in chapter ten. He now wants to see for himself the one universal [...]'

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Shaper Shaped… by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 9/7/2012 9:58:48 AM

'In days gone by I used to be A potter who would feel His fingers mould the yielding clay To patterns on his wheel; But now, through wisdom lately won, That pride has gone away, I have ceased to be the potter And have learned to be the clay. In other days I [...]'

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The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Analyse this

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 9/6/2012 3:57:02 AM

'Came across this write-up by Badri Raina in the Analyse this feature column in today’s edition of The Hindu. A file picture of Mayaben Kodnani on her way to a special court in Ahmedabad. Piety and religiosity are not a guarantee against wrongdoing News is doing the rounds that some young Muslim men, among them [...]'

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Burnt…

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 8/1/2012 9:38:18 AM

'“Touch us not!” – the parched leaves warn me… their heat scoffing at my feeble attempts at camaraderie, and their thorns jeering out loud that I stay away, they draw my heart out to them… I inch closer to extend a handshake, “Ouch!” my pricked fingers stand stunned, my skin and eyes bleeding to bear [...]'

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Adadha attamenna / ஆடாத ஆட்டமென்ன

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 7/16/2012 5:20:06 AM

'medai meedheri Adadha ATTamenna, thedal thurandhAlum koodAdha kooTTamenna, viNNurangum meenin poNNoLi yAdhum, maNNirangaLum vAnin kaTTalai andro… மேடை மீதேறி ஆடாத ஆட்டமென்ன, தேடல் துறந்தாலும் கூடாத கூட்டமென்ன, விண்ணுறங்கும் மீனின் பொன்னொளி யாதும், மண்ணிரங்களும் வானின் கட்டளை அன்றோ…'

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Escapades…

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 7/15/2012 1:22:27 PM

'Running towards solace or Running away from peril? Miles of mind cleansing Threatens a hard soul With soft whips of relief… Scars to be saved, So the mind doesn’t dislodge the agony? Or scabs to be savored, So a healing quill can weave its magic?'

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Time warp…

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 7/15/2012 1:10:29 PM

'Bestowed with callings, But mired in a time warp, I dream on… Awaiting the moment, When life drops its menacing edge, And embraces beautiful memories… A second away or an eon? By dawn one way and by dusk another, The warp plays tricks on the soul…'

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Sunspots…

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 6/29/2012 4:28:21 AM

'I… the Sun… daunting and deep, haunting in sleep, obscured amidst the lights, and enduring all the sights, I rule… But marring my façade, they persist… hideous and repugnant revolting and obnoxious, the unwanted sunspots… Scorch I can, all those I want to, with just a golden beam… but be cleansed and freed from these [...]'

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I have no name…

Author : Coffee Bean      Blog : Coffee Bean Musings      Date : 6/15/2012 9:51:47 AM

'Came across this haunting verse by Jiddu Krishnamurti… I have no name, I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains. I have no shelter; I am as the wandering waters. I have no sanctuary, like the dark gods; Nor am I in the shadow of deep temples. I have no sacred books; Nor am [...]'

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