लल्लनटॉप द्विवेदी और व्योमेश शुक्ल के मध्य हुए अस्सी मिनट के एक वार्तालाप को श्रवण कर मेरे अन्तर्मन का बनारसी अस्सी घाट की ऐसी एक साँझ में जा टिका जब वहाँ से कुछ ही आगे ध्रुपद मेले का आयोजन हो रहा है , और ऐसा प्रतीत होता है मानो रुद्र वीणा से निकलती तरंगें गंगा…
Category: Autobiographical
Tennisflashes (a poem)
(Played in the morning. Got high on dopamine. The high did not leave me throughout the day. I have written this poem only to record my feelings, and to verify if others who play tennis also experience something like this. Recorded below are the flashes that keep springing before my eyes.) Eight hours after we…
M.M.Godbole’s The Walking Brahmin – A First Person Account of the First War of Independence
Vishnubhat Godse was a poor Brahmin who resided in Varsai village in Maharashtra. Together with his uncle Rambhat, he embarked upon a yatra in 1857, crisscrossed the country on foot, conducted yajnas and anushthans at many places, earned a bit but lost it all, survived the mayhem of the first war of independence and returned…
Ambedkar’s WAITING FOR A VISA – Six Cases depicting the practice of Untouchability
The so-called untouchables were not considered as full-fledged citizens, and were denied any kind of recognition and rights. It is they, who were supposed to be eternally in wait for visa. I am not sure if Ambedkar coined the title himself, or someone else did, for the autobiography was published by People’s Education Society as…
Abhinav Pancholi 