Midnight’s children,

Background is the scenery of the historical poetic drama opening with it, a mode to introduce to the audience, the readers giving a background of all that happened or to take place and in Background lies it Premonition, Nightmare as the latter is just a realization on the part of Gandhi. First, Background was put…

The Fire Temple and the Fire Hymn,The vulture atop the doongar-vari,The Towers of Silence,Ahriman, Ahura MazdaIn Keki N.Daruwalla,How to locate and re-locate them?

Are you happy, my love? ”,Said she slowly in a voice of her own.“Who, who are you speaking,Who, who are you,Speaking at a distance,Standing in the shadows? ”,Asked the lover.“My love, my love, have you,Have you forgotten,Forgotten me so early,I am, I am your dead beloved,Whom eliminated youFrom your life? ”,Came it the voice.“Who, who…

Written in the twilight of eighteenth centuryAnd the threshold of the nineteenth,A poem Latinized in diction and personified unnecessarilyEvoking despair and despondenceWearing a painted look,Is it the herald of romanticism,The waning of classicism?

When the sun seems to be scorchingAnd ruffling it allWith the winds blowing hot,Blood sucked dry,The earth parching dryWith the cracks,I can see the gulmohars hanging by,The red-red gulmohar blossomsHanging by in clusters,The cuckoos cooing from the bamboo thicketsOr the mango orchards,The amaltas scattering overYellowish blossoms,The jaruls with the remnantsBluish or violet-hued,The oleanders red, pink…

A son of the soil,An educationist, a reformer,A debater, a humanist,A radical, a free thinker.