Book Launch at Kochi: Pranayam - Limited Version

Rammohan
Paliyath

Following the initial release of Pranayam (Love) – Limited Version at Mysuru on January 6, the e-book was launched at River Bourne Center, Kochi, by Author and Columnist Rammohan Paliyath on February 4, 2024. The audience – a coterie of bookish people – was looking forward to the "Webinivesam" author’s informal and delightful oratory, and it was as effortlessly engaging as expected. 

Shreekumar
Varma

Playwright, Author, Poet, and Columnist Shreekumar Varma shared his thoughts on the three-dimensional creative collaboration of poetry and photography, and the individual and collective experiences of the pictures and poems. Poet, Artist, Curator and Researcher Kavitha Balakrishnan, who was expected to but could not make it to the event, made her virtual presence felt. 

An introduction of the photographers and their pictures along with poetry rendition by the poets was well received by the audience. Not to mention the musical rendition of a select few Malayalam poems by Lyricist, Composer and Short Film Director Krishnakumar Varma.

Rangarajan G.

Pranayam – Limited Version (Love – Limited Version) is a flipbook of pictures and poems in Malayalam and English. Jayasree T.’s Malayalam poems are inspired by photographs captured by Basanth Peringode, Manikantan Mundakkal, Poornima G., Riya Anes, Sudevan and Zakariya, and translated by Sujatha Warrier. The e-book, designed by Bharati Varrier, has been published by Writers International Edition. The e-book is available on Google Books. For your copy of the e-book, please click here.

Jayadas. T.

The concluding session, which was an interactive one, turned out to be thoroughly entertaining as well with the participation of Poet, Professor and much-more Rangarajan G. and  Jayadas T., a teacher of math who is full of mirth. The evening ended with amazing twilight waterfront photo opportunities well exploited by the guests and participants.

Kavitha
Balakrishnan

Krishnakumar
Varma

                                           

Book Launch at Mysuru: Pranayam - Limited Version

 

Introduction to the e-book by Sujatha Warrier

Pranayam – Limited Version was launched by Geethanjali Dilip, Poet and Curator, Yercaud Poetry Festival, at the 6^th edition of the Festival held at Royal Orchid Brindavan Garden, Mysore, on January 6, 2024, in the presence of the Chief Guest of the event, Prof. B. N. Balajee, Sai Baba University, along with the Guest of Honor, Shubha Sanjay Urs, Chair Person, Mysore Literature Festival, Rotary Dist. (2982)

Geethanjali Dilip

Governor 2023-24, Rtn. S. Raghavan, the leading members of Rotary Club of Salem Galaxy who were the sponsors of the Festival, a physical gathering of poets from different parts of India, and a virtual participation of poets from different parts of the world. The Festival was organized by the Soul Scribers Society, Salem.

Pranayam Limited Version, an e-book, was launched with a click on the link to the book by Poet Geethanjali Dilip on January 6, 2024, the first day of the Festival. A screening of the e-book was done on the second day, January 7, 2024. 

Ashish Godya, Soul Scribers Society

Pranayam - Limted Version (Love – Limited Version), published by Writers International Edition, is a collection of photographs, short poems in Malayalam, and their translation in English.

Jayasree T.’s poems in Malayalam have been translated into English by Sujatha Warrier. The photographs, which have inspired the poems, are by Basanth Peringode, Manikantan Mundakkal, Poornima G., Riya Anes, Sudevan and Zakariya. The book has been designed by Bharati Varrier. 

The e-book is available at play.google.com 

The Bing Bang Theory

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If this planet is my home...

If my home is this planet and if I throw the waste – the garbage – generated in my home out the window of my home, where would it fall? Perhaps it would continually fall in the infinite abyss called space. The gravitational forces of all the heavenly bodies would push and pull it. In the end, it would be forced to follow its own elliptical orbit, and it would have to rotate and revolve around the heavenly bodies just to avoid collision, just to stay in space, just so it won’t fall.

Think of all the garbage thrown from all the windows of the planet, rotating and revolving in space! In a snowballing effect, they would grow to become as gigantesque as a planet. And there would be all those vermin living on it unhindered, in bliss, making their own heaven of it.

Piles of garbage would continue to heap up, forming spheres and moving in orbits of their own. Vermin of infinite kinds would live on them. Pollutants would co-exist, react, and evolve. More and more, and newer, emissions would pervade the universe. Humans would learn to breathe all kinds of gases.

In time, man would discover these new "planets". Forging ahead with his scientific searches and researches, he would send rockets to explore the possibility of life on these new planets. He may eventually turn these planetoids into space tourism destinations, disturbing the peaceful lives of the vermin, making life difficult for them…

Indeed, there would be no stopping us.

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Fences

While in the nightly hours...

Sparkles
of the vinous,
musky moonlight
spill o’er
the urns
of the skies,
speckle
the nooks
and crannies
of the night,
cling
to the fences
of my senses,
and my sleepy eyes.

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2023

Hosny Salah - Pixabay

A rumble of terror
on the horizon,

A fluttering of fear
in the air,

A foreboding,
looming
sense of doom,

A dread of loss
of what never was,

A colossal outburst
of molten rage,

A drumbeat
of faith and fear
at war,

A shuffling retreat
of peace
in defeat,

 

A crackling meltdown
of hope
in its own embers,

 

A littering of life
gasping for death
under the debris.

A year dies out
smothered
in its own ashes.

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