ΕΛΛΗΝΟ-ΙΝΔΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ & ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗΣ
Hellenic-Indian Society for Culture & Development
The Hukus Bukus is one of the most popular songs of the Pandits of Kashmir, who after the domination of Islam have been displaced from their homeland. The message of this poem is rooted in the spiritual tradition of Kashmir. Some say it was composed by the last great mystic and poetess of Kashmir Saivism, …
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Kabir (Indian mystic poet and saint 15th-century) पोथी पढ़ पढ़ जग मुआ, पंडित भयो न कोई ढाई आखर प्रेम के, जो पढ़े सो पंडित होए कबीर Pothi Padh Padh Jag Mua, Pandit Bhayo Na Koye Dhai Aakhar Prem Ke, Jo Padhe so Pandit Hoye Reading the scriptures everyone died, none became wise Only those who …
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Poem by Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ (21 February 1896 – 15 October 1961 / Midnapore, West Bengal) Translated from Hindi into Greek by Dimitrios Vassiliadis वह तोड़ती पत्थर = Έσπαζε πέτρες देखा मैंने उसे इलाहाबाद के पथ पर = την είδα σ’ ένα δρόμο του Αλλαχαμπάντ वह तोड़ती पत्थर । = εκείνη έσπαζε πέτρες. कोई न छायादार पेड़ …
A Poem by Dennis Dinopoulos It is peaceful here, there is a presence, in the soft atmosphere, ‘invisibles’ seem to nibble at light, they churn in harmony facilitating surrender of ‘indispensables’; the body here knows its own requirements, is a well-wisher of particulars, a harbinger of inequalities, is attached by reason of necessity, demands no surplus exigencies, nor rights of passage. …
I With you Time dramatizes into diamonds into pearly moments. Nay, I do not ‘spend time’, with you, I weave it into a poem, a painting. II Time? – – time Is an abstract notion you can …
Satya P Gautam* Amarjit Chandan’s poetry can be read as an articulation – as a phenomenology of exile – a continuous and constant concern with the experiential realm of reflections – reflections on situating one’s locations, and transitions from those locations – of sojourns and movements – of journeys in the realm of imaginary consciousness – journeys through which one moves from one perspective …
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The Hellenic-Indian Society for Culture & Development and Mandragoras Publications organized on Monday, 16 February 2015, at 19.30 at Polis art café (5, Pesmazoglou str. Athens), a presentation of Amarjit Chandan’s new poetic collection Wear Me. Speakers: The Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan, Dr. Dimitrios Vassiliadis, Chairman of the Hellenic-Indian Society for Culture & Development, Katerina Aggelaki …
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by Denis Dinopoulos I feel so plundered you said, my eyes it’s as if suddenly they don’t belong to me; I feel like an escapee from my own mortality, from my own inability to understand let alone comprehend God’s miracle. l, inadvertently said: it was the emperor Jahan who commissioned it, stricken with grief at the death …
by Dennis Dinopoulos* Where was I walking to? Where was I running to in these wide and sprawling streets? The night thick, aromatic. I was caught in the midst this incredible current, pushed along by sheer excitement, pumped by an expectancy higher than the buildings enclosing me. I was immersed in these invisible, intense, electrifying deregulators, together with fellow …
Dr. Anand Gupt sings Tagore’s song “Khoto Joto Khoti Joto” composed in Piraeus, Greece at the end of his long journey in Europe in 1926. The photoes are from the Bangladesh Art Show organized by the Club for Unesco of the Department of Piraeus & Islands from 20 up to 23 January 2013 at the …
