wanderings in exile...

Neeraj Santoshi

Friday, June 15, 2018

When I met poet Neeraj

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Born in Kashmir, the land of lakes and lotuses, I thought my poet-father must have named me ‘Neeraj’, which means lotus-the waterborne, afte...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Tears of our ancestral houses" a poem by Neeraj Santoshi

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It was difficult to see them dying slowly, inch by inch, in their moss-laden loneliness and painful to see them fading back into the eleme...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

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Take a look at @htTweets's Tweet: https://twitter.com/htTweets/status/740481003995598848?s=09
Monday, April 20, 2015

Hole in a sweater

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tonight my eyes get teary thinking of that  mother who sees the hole in her dead son's sweater she had knitted last summer.. but she...
Monday, July 9, 2012

At dusk, poet moves from haunting songs to silence of haiku

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(It was a dream come true to get an opportunity to interview my namesake Gopaldas Neeraj, the legendary lyricist i was named after. The...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Snow Still Falls...... my translation of Agnishekhar's Hindi poem......

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Snow still falls abundantly like in our childhood days Crows still caw on the chinars from the rooftops snow slips like loose e...

Amrita Preetam on Sahir Ludhianvi's death in 1980.....

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Meri sez hajir hai Par jute aur kameej kee tarah Tu apna badan bhee utar de Udhar mudhe par rakh de Koi khas baat nahin Yeh apne apn...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Arjan Dev Majboor: Poets Never Die....

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Each day I light a lamp in the whirlwind. I am a stage of the caravan. Peep into me and listen to the ancient ballad. It is endless…....
Monday, August 2, 2010

Love and sex in ancient Kashmir....

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``O descendent of Kasyapa, best among the brahmanas, on the12th, a pitcher full of cold water and decorated with flowers and leaves should...
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Sunday, August 1, 2010

My haikus on love….

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buzzing heavy night glowworm’s surprise.. where stars make love silently… snow falls silently into the eyes of virgin mountain l...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Van Gogh's love....

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"For love is something so positive, so strong, so real that it is as impossible for one who loves to take back that feeling as it is ...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Some Haiku poems on terror and exile.....

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        lonely dark night       on the unmarried militant’s fresh gravestone       two glowworms make love      All the stolen silver of...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Spiritual orphans: Is it the end of Kashmiri Shaiva lineage ?

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Has the lineage of Shaiva Masters,especially in the context of oral tradition and guru shishya parampara, that existed in the Himalayan vall...
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