TWO POEMS ABOUT THE DOVE FROM Stephen Gill
MY DOVE The dove of my longing sanctified in the sanctum of serenity wings towards the sky of solitude-- the planet of safety. She flutters because of the winds and cold. Underneath her flight there are only humans no nations. She radiates hues of nondepictable truth that consecrates the emptiness of her surroundings. The leaf that she carries is from the evergreen tree of never-ending hope. The psalm of her silence greets the emergence for a cheerful tomorrow. --Stephen Gill, Canada-- www.stephengill.ca FLIGHT OF MY DOVE I am often greeted by the bursting flutters of my dove while rambling the rayless resort of ... Read More

LOVE AND FEAR
A short story by Stephen Gill The soft fingers of the first breeze started to play with his hair. The poet looked at the moon that smiled in its grace and then at the stars that twinkled in their silent harmony across the horizon of the endless canopy. His thoughts dozed like butterflies on the blossoms of love and peace. Feeling the freshness of the silvery beams, he began to feel lulled. ... Read More

COSMIC DANCE
Cyril Dabydeen

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The way we’ve come to it with

one breath, heaving in with more

than the lotus flower, or what we

contrive because of longings of

the spirit with mystics of old,

rishies at our doorstep, or what’s

conceived of only in the Vedas.

Going beyond an ashram in Rishikesh,

or somewhere like it, it’s the cowherd girls,

gopies, with choreography in their eyebrows,

that I think about, their foreheads arched,

hands & feet filigreed–as I will imagine ... Read More

Literary Merits of Panchtantra
Panchtantra is a literary work per excellence. It has the framework that encompasses fable narrative to prove its premise. It is an art of narrative fiction which leaves its mark even on the literary styles of contemporary writers as on Gautam Bhattia’s Panchtantra: A Twenty First Century Parable. The traces of story telling in the similar style are also found in Mahabharata, Ramayana. From the time of Rigveda , storytelling has emerged as ... Read More

A CRITICAL INTERPRETATION OF PANCHTANTRA
Anuradha Sharma

The text named Panchtantra belongs to the oral tradition of the ancient India. It is composed by Pt. Visnu Sarma about 2200 years before in Sanskrit. It imparts certain morals to be followed. The date of the composition of the work is of least concern but what is of vital importance is what the text stamps and how it socializes women to dance to the tune of male dictates. The prelude of ... Read More