By Sri Aurobindo A face on the cold dire mountain peaks Grand and still; its lines white and austere Match with the unmeasured snowy streaks Cutting heaven, implacable and sheer. Above it a mountain of matted hair Aeon-coiled on that deathless and lone head In its solitude huge of lifeless Read more…
By Toru Dutt Three happy children in a darkened room!What do they gaze on with wide-open eyes?A dense, dense forest, where no sunbeam pries,And in its centre a cleared spot.—There bloomGigantic flowers on creepers that embraceTall trees: there, in a quiet lucid lakeThe while swans glide; there, “whirring from the Read more…
By Toru Dutt Savitri is the mythological tale of persistent and virtuous Princess of Madra and wife of Satyavan, who wins back her dead husband’s life from the Lord of Death himself, Yama. Toru Dutt has composed this ballad in five parts. I have published below few turning point point Read more…
By Toru Dutt The following are the main excerpts of Toru Dutt’s poem on Ekalavya, the hunter boy who lived in the forests and learnt archery making an image of Guru Dronacharya. Dronacharya, to keep up his promise to make only Arjuna the greatest archer in the Earth, asks Ekalavya Read more…