Gagan Gill
Gagan Gill (b. 1959) lives in Delhi and writes in Hindi. She worked as a literary editor for eleven years with The Times of India and Sunday Observer before devoting herself to creative writing. She has published four collections of poetry: One Day The Girl Will Return (1989), Buddha In The Dark (1996), Inopportune Desire (1998) and Thump Thump Heart Thump Thump (2003). Gagan Gill has received several national awards for poetry. Her poems are largely ...
Gaurav Solanki
Gaurav Solanki was born in 1986 in Rajasthan. Electrical engineering graduate. Worked in the Tehelka magazine. At present he is a free lance writer in Delhi. Publishes poetry and short stories in different magazines. His first book is yet to come.
The Bhagavadgita
The Bhagavadgita is an integral part of the ancient Indian epics “Mahabharata”, which explicates the aim, the character and the deep meaning of the basic segment of the epic plot – the battle at Kurukshetra. Through the millennia of its existence the Bhagavadgita has been functioning also as a separate text of the oral and written traditions. It has always been an authority of the knowledge of existence and the teaching of human perfection in the variety of schools within ...
Hymn to Vak
The poem X.125 belongs to the late Rigveda and is considered to be one of the most emblematic texts of the Vedic culture, encoding the profound knowledge of ancient poets about the creative essence and the power of Sound and Language. According to the Rigvedic tradition this is anatmastuti-hymn. The hymns of this specific and rare genre in Rigveda have been composed not in the format of a praise or prayer to the gods as the usual poems in the first Veda, but in the format of a god’s ...
Hymn to Agni
The Samaveda or Veda of the Chants is composed and finalized during the so called „epoch of the Kurus“ (1200- 700 BC) as a result of the increasing significance of the public ritual (shrauta yajna) in the social and religious life of ancient vedic society. The Samaveda consists of the verses of the Rigveda, but set to melodies (samans), which have important ritual function. As the first Veda the Samaveda begins with praise (stuti) to the god of fire, Agni, whose stanzas have been ...