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തേന്‍ ചോര്‍ന്ന പൂവ്

പ്രാപിച്ച ശേഷം രണ്ടു കൈകളും കൊണ്ട് ആഞ്ഞുതള്ളി ,
മനസിന്റെ മലന്ചെരുവിലെവിടെയോ മരവിച്ച രൂപമായി ...
ഒരിക്കലും ഉണരാത്ത നിദ്രയില്‍ ലീനയായി ....
കാലപ്രവാഹമാകുന്ന മലവെള്ള പാച്ചിലില്‍ ആ രൂപം -
അപ്രത്യക്ഷമായി ....
പക്ഷെ ...ഞാന്‍ ..
മലമുകളില്‍ സുരക്ഷിതനായിരുന്നു ...എന്നും

by arunjith-redrose

സീത

ഉഴവുചാലിന്റെ പുത്രിയായവള്‍ പിറവിയെടുത്തു ...

പര്യായമാം ഉഴവുചാലിന്‍ പേരതു സിത
പഞ്ചസ്ത്രീരത്നങ്ങളില്‍ മഹത്വമുള്ളവല്‍ നീ
ജനകാത്മജ നീയെന്നും ഭാരതീയര്‍ക്കു
സുന്ദരനാം രാമന്റെ വാമ ഭാഗം പുല്‍കിയ നീ -
യെത്ര ഭാഗ്യവതി ഉപേക്ഷിക്കപ്പെടും വരെയും
കാന്തനില്ലായോധ്യ അടവിക്ക് സമമെന്നുരച്ചു -
യാത്രയായി നീ ആഢംബരങ്ങളെ വിട്ടു
അശ്രുവുമൊലിപ്പിചു അശോകവനത്തില്‍ നീ
കാത്തിരുന്നതൊരഗനി പരീക്ഷയോ .....
മര്യാദാപുരുഷോത്തമന്‍ തന്‍ മര്യാദയില്ലാ-
പ്രവൃത്തിതന്‍ ഫലം അനുഭവിച്ച സീതേ ....
നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കും ഭാരതീയരെന്നും -
ചൊല്ലും രാമായണമല്ല സീതായണം.....

Alone

Alone I stand with no support,
Not even a hand to hold;
My silence speaks of profound pain
And of lonliness untold.
Each ray of sunshine into my life,
Brings a glimmer of hope with it;
But leaves me soon in the lonely dark,
Taking a part of me away with it.
It always takes, but never gives
Is that how it destined to be?
Only silence greets my unspoken thoughts
A silence that speaks volume to me.
My tears dried up by relentless sun,
Or washed away by uncaring rain;
My heart thats full of love and care
Is choked to death by loss and pain
My life devoid of hope and light
Is full of sorrowful shadows cast.
So I stand alone,proud and erect,
Forbidden and forgotten,loved and lost.

gaya3

Reflections

There is stillness in the air
No chirp,no rustle,no blare
The mind mindlessly reflects back
At what life has and what it lacks
The days just passed by
Like a short breeze,cold but dry
How moments slipped away so fast
Taking away the first and last
How each decision,every move
Decides whether you win or loose
The game of life that is to be placed
Time keeps on moving...memories fade
But the shadow of what had been
Always remain...not unseen
It is in something you can wash away
But accompanies you through your way
The experience of your shadow
Help you make choices as you grow


gaya3

Candle of Your Life

Plunged into depths of deepest despair
Into darkness that seems endless and long
You reach out your hand and hold me tight
Needing my light to guide you along
I give you the brightness of my light
To drive away all your darkest fears


And for every ray of light that i give
I melts away in molten tears
When the cloud of despair is lifted away
When light prevails and darkness is gone
Iam blown out and thrown aside
After all my need for the moment is done
And there I lie lost and banished
Neglected and ignored in your busy life
Untill the darkness descends once again
And you need once more this Candle of your Life.

[courtesy-To that Red little Candle which shared its life in that lonely dark hours with me]

Gaya3

Memories..

My footsteps let to the attic floor
I felt the creaking staircase sway
Slowly and softly i climbed them up
Clearing the cobwebs away

The door sung back with ease and quiet,
The room lay dark and seemed at rest;
Trapped in the past,it lovingly held
Beautiful memories clutched to its breast.
The dull glow from my candle flame
Pick out shapes hauntingly old;
The years just rolled away from me
Each shape its foregotten stories told.


The framed photograph fallen on the floor
With unseen hand beckoned me near;
I cleared away the dust of fears
And gazed once more at those faces dear

Those blurred images sprung into my life
The present gone,I was back in the past ;
My remembering eyes clouded over,
Reliving the moment of love that I lost

A bundle of dusty letters I found
Held lovingly by a dirty bow;
My eyes caressed the printed words
Written in love those summers ago
The cards that proclaimed tender care
Still held in them petals of flowers,
Those soft fragrance brought back to me
The magic of those stolen hours

The broken sea shell,pale and smooth,
One of the relics time has spared;
I kept it to my ear and heard,
Echoes of joyful laughter shared

The rusty pen,the sketch so old
Each object brought me joy and pain
Though time went on,for me it stood still
,In a room where the past was here again
I sat among the snatches of memories
Their beauty mirrored in my tears.
In that silent room,echoes of yesterday
Were lost in time to human ears.

gaya3

Do You Know How To Really Forgive Someone?

The Problem with Not Forgiving

Most people have at least one person in their life that they harbor anger against for some reason or another. For some the anger is due to a serious hurt, whether physical or emotional, such as assault or abuse. For others the anger stems from less important issues, but the anger is just as real and just as debilitating. For instance the resentment that can build up in a relationship over many years over many small and large differences. For some, maybe it is a co-worker that angers you, they ask too much of you, they sabotage you, or they just annoy you.

Why do we hold onto anger? At it's root, it's because we want to hurt that person back. The problem with this strategy is that it doesn't hurt the intended. It only hurts us. Think about it. Can you be happy when you are angry? Have you ever noticed that you have more accident sthe more angry you are? So how do you get rid of this anger? By forgiving.

The Problem with Forgiving

If forgiving is the answer to releasing your anger, why don't we do it? Well, because forgiving someone is hard! Another reason is that we don't know how to do it properly. And then there is the fear that by forgiving someone we are inviting them to hurt us again or that we are saying what they did was ok.

How to Really Forgive Someone

1)Examine Your Anger - Take some time to understand your anger. It's easy to say, "Well I just hate that person" or "That person drives me crazy." For some the reason for the anger is very clear as in the case of assault, for instance. But other times, the root of our anger is not so clear. Why does this person "bug you?" Why do you get angry at your boss? Why do you flip out when your spouse parks the car "the wrong way." The reason it is important to understand your anger is that if you identify clearly what the root is, then you can go about finding a possible solution. This doesn't work in all cases. But try this first anyway. Then ask yourself what can YOU do to make the situation better? If it's about trying to change a person, the only way to really impact a person is to love them, praise them and continually discover and focus on the good in that person. This takestime, but try it!! It really works. If it's an intolerable situation and you can't ignore it, find a way to not be around this person.

2) "Thank You for This Experience." Have you ever noticed how good can spring up from bad experiences? Just like after a forest fire the first thing you see is lots of little green plants starting to grow.What did you learn about your inner strength from your negativeexperience? What did you learn about yourself that has made you a stronger person? This doesn't make wrongs against you right. But it puts you back in the position of power, not victimhood. Remember, you have survived. Build on that! And little by little explore where you see small bits of green sprouting up in your life. Focus on that, have gratitude for that good, and you will be in the process of forgiving.

3) Relationship Resentment -Let it Go: Advice from the book "FollowYour Heart" by Andrew Matthews (one of my favorite books) is brilliant. In his book he talks about how we make up rules for how others should behave. If they don't behave that way, we make them"guilty" and we hold a grudge. But does it change the situation? No.All it does it "ruin our lives!" He uses humor to make a good point,"When a seagull craps on your head, do you resent the seagull?" Do you resent the weather when it rains? So why resent people?

Whatever the "guilty party" got wrong, it is history. The question is,"Do you want your life to work or don't you." And he also takes on the hard situations too. For instance, he a friend who found forgiveness after having his 3 teenage daughters murdered. It wasn't easy, but in the end he realized that only he had control over how he moved forward with his life. He didn't want his life to be miserable so he "let goof anger" for his "own sake and his own survival."

4) Meditate on Compassion: Imagine your antagonist as a baby. What has been their life? Why do they act in ways that hurt you or others? If you can find a small place of compassion, of understanding, then perhaps in seeing them as a victim of their circumstances, you may find a place of peace about what happened. Buddhism says: "for the victimizer is, truly, the most unfortunate of all."Â Buddhism urges us to focus on loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity as "a means for avoiding resentment in the first place.

"The Dalia Lama lives a life of forgiveness in action. The book, "The Wisdom of Forgiveness" gives an account his life in this regard. Again this doesn't make crimes committed right. This doesn't mean that you should necessarily befriend a person who hurt you or that you shouldtake your guard down in protecting yourself from a dangerous person.But if you can find a place where you can wish for their healing, you will find your own healing. If this doesn't work, move onto #5

.5) Turn it over to God: Put your trust in God that God will take careof this situation in the long run. God will provide you strength. Godwill bring justice in the end. And hopefully God will heal theoffender too. Take comfort in God's love for you.

6) If you don't believe in God, then at least know that in science all things eventually come to equilibrium. And so, turn it over to the universe. Turn it over to your friends' and family's love for you.Allow yourself to be comforted and strengthened by their love.

7) Write it Down. Take all these suggestions and journal about your feelings and then write down the answers to the questions: How will I forgive? What will I gain by forgiving? What is the good in all this?What have I learned? How will my life be better by forgiving?

What Have You Got to Lose? - Only Peace

Who are you holding resentment against? Who are you angry at? Who do you hate? Do you want release from this heavy yoke around your heart?Do you want peace and happiness? Try forgiveness… for your sake. Take it slow. It is a process. Over time you can watch your anger melt. TheDalai Lama is said to have the heart health of a 20 year old according to his doctors. Why is that? Perhaps it just might be that he holds no anger.

Imagine what it could do for you!Please share your comments, experiences, and tips on Forgiveness! All comments big and small are very welcomed!

by

gaya3

9 Tips In Life That Lead Happiness

Are you truly happy? Do you even know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness? These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves. I live my life to maintain my own happiness while trying my best to not cause unhappiness to anyone else. If you want to be happy you need to understand that you can be happy and that you should be happy. Many people make the mistake of believing that they don't deserve happiness and accept their unhappy state as their destiny. The truth of the matter is that happiness, like anything else in life, needs to benurtured. The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.

Understand what it is that will make you happy. Everyone has unique requirements for attaining happiness and what makes one person happy may be very different from what makes someone else happy. Revel in your individuality and do not worry about whether or not your desires are comparable to those of your peers.

Make a plan for attaining goals that you believe will make you happy.Your mood will very likely increase as your pursue your goal because you will feel better about yourself for going after something you value.

Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively when you are surrounded by people who think that way.Conversely, if you are around people who are happy their emotional state will be infectious.

When something goes wrong try to figure out a solution instead of wallowing in self pity. Truly happy people don't allow set backs to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the circumstances back to their favor.

Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy. These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continued happiness.It's also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself. Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long,relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearanceyou will be subconsciously putting yourself in a better mood.Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. While there are times that require you to be serious, when it is appropriate, find a way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you unhappy.

Maintaining your health is another way to achieve happiness. Being overweight or not eating nutritious foods can have a negative effect on your mood. Additionally, exercise has been known to release endorphins that give you a feeling of happiness.

Finally, it is important to understand that you deserve happiness.Those who believe that they are not worthy of happiness may subconsciously sabotage their efforts to achieve happiness. If necessary, tell yourself each day that you deserve to be happy and remind yourself what steps you will take to achieve the happiness you desire.Happiness is hard to define but most people are aware of whether they are happy or not.

Many people believe that happiness is a form of luck and that some people are destined to be happy while others are destined to be unhappy. I try to incorporate the tips above into my life and have had great success in achieving happiness. The tips in this article are small but meaningful steps that you can take each day to lead you to true happiness.
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gaya3

ധീരനായ രാവണന്‍

അസുരനായ രാവണന് എങ്ങനെ ദേവനായ രാമന്‍റെ മുന്നില്‍ യുദ്ധം ചെയ്യാന്‍ സാധിച്ചു

രാമരാവന യുദ്ധത്തില്‍ രാമന്‍റെ പക്ഷത്തു ഒരുപാടു നീതിയും ന്യായവും ഉണ്ട്എന്ന് വാദിക്കാം രാമന്‍ യുഗ പുരുക്ഷനാണ് വാഗ്മിയാണ് ത്യാഗിയാണ് അതിലുപരി സര്‍വ സംമതനാണ് സീതയെ രാവണന്‍ തട്ടികൊണ്ട് പോയതിനു സീതയുടെ സൗന്ദര്യംമാത്രമല്ല കാരണം മുന്‍ വൈരാഗ്യവും ഉണ്ടെന്നുള്ളതാണ് സത്യം വിവാഹഭ്യര്ധനയുമായി എത്തുന്ന ഒരു സ്ത്രീയുടെ മാരിടങ്ങളെഅരിഞ്ഞിടുക ഇതില്‍ ആര്‍ക്കാണ്‌ യുഗ പുരുഷന്‍റെ അനുജന്റെ ധീരതയില്‍ സംസാരിക്കനുള്ളത് ഒരു സ്ത്രീ അത് ദേവതയോരക്ഷസിയോ ആരുമാകട്ടെ അവളോട്‌ ഈ നീജപ്രവൃത്തി കാണിച്ചത് ധൈര്യമാണോ /സീതയെ അശോകവനത്തില്‍ രാക്ഷസിമാരുടെനടുക്ക് തളചിട്ടപ്പോള്‍ അത്രയും ദിവസം കൊണ്ടു രാവണന് സീതയെ ഏതാല്ലാംതരത്തില്‍ ഉപദ്രവിക്കാംയിരുന്നുഅക്കാര്യത്തില്‍ സത്യസന്തനാരാന് സല്ത് സോഭവമാര്‍ക്കാന് രാവണന്‍ തന്നെയാണ് ,രാമന്‍ ചെയ്തതോ ആ രാവണന്‍റെ കുലവും കുടുംബവും നശിപ്പിച്ചു ലെങ്ക പുരിയെ വെന്തു വെന്നീരാക്കിയിട്ട്‌ രാവണനെ വധിച്ചു സീതയെ തിരികെ കൊണ്ടു പോന്നു എന്നാല്‍ വര്‍ഷങ്ങള്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞപ്പോള്‍ ആ സീതയെ സംശയത്തിന്‍റെമുള്‍മുനയില്‍ നിറുത്തി ഇതാണോ ഒരു പുരുഷന്‍ ഇതാണോ ധൈര്യശാലിയായ ഒരു ഭരണാധികാരി

Theatre still a strong medium- Seema Biswas

Theatre has always been a strong medium that addressed the problems of society and it is never less superior to films. Humanism should be the basic quality that one should embrace be it in film or drama. She said that she ascribed no boundary to theatres whether it be Indian or Foreign and expressed intense desire to act in malayalam drama overcoming the limitation of language.
To the question that whether she wish to do bold characters like that in Bandit Queen she answered that she likes to break the present image of her's and do tender character. Its through body language and expression, one should communicate ideas to people. She was deeply moved by the death of Phoolan Devi (the character she did) and experssed that Phoolan was safe in the jungle and was shot dead when she embraced politics.
Seema Biswas was talking to the media on the second day of National theatre fest. She was the chief guest in the National Theatre festival 2009.

Height

Height What is Height? It is nothing . No, it is something. You need to be a tall man; If you want to love me- An Intelligent College Girl said. What is Height? That is an important thing; A soldier said. Do we need Height- To serve the country? Yes, yes. You do need. But I am so patriotic! But Height is proportional to Patriotism; Again the soldier said. Can't I do anything in this world without Height? Can't I keep my identity without Height? No, never, all the beanpoles supported. A sailor, policeman, soldier, airman Everybody needs Height! Then a poet comes there- The question again repeated! Is Height a necessary thing to become a poet? No, not at all. Then what else a poet needs? Nothing else, but some Imagination and inspiration . Yes, Ability is the criterion; not Height.
Is a shorty a trustworthy person in the world of poetry?
Yes, if he has the Ability!
Because it is a world which surpasses even flesh and blood!
When you bid farewell to this world you leave only your name
And not your Height.
OK, then let us join them.

ഞാന്‍ വര്ക്ക് ചെയ്താ ഫിലിം

ശ്രീ കൃഷ്ണ കോളേജില്‍ ആണ് ഞാന്‍ എന്റെ ഡിഗ്രി ചെയധാധു .ഞങ്ങളുടെ ജേര്‍ണലിസം സിര്‍ന്ടെ സഹായത്തോടെ ഞങ്ങള്‍ ഒരു ഫിലിം ചെയ്യാന്‍ തീരുമാനിച്ചു.........അധാണ് ബ്ലാക്ക്ബോര്ദ് .............ഈ ഞങ്ങളുടെ ചെറിയ വോര്കിനു ഫിക ഫിലിം ഫെസ്റിവല്‍ ഓഫ് കേരളയുടെ ബെസ്റ്റ് ഫില്മ്നുല അവര്‍ഡ് ലഭിച്ചു..........

പണ്ടു ആരോ കുട്ടികുഴച്ച് കഴിച്ചു ബാക്കി വെച്ച പോയ ഭാഷ ........ ഞങ്ങള്‍ (തൃശൂര് )ഇപ്പോഴും കെട്ട്,പറഞ്ഞു നടകുന്നു........... അറ്ത്തമാരിന്ഞു അറിയട്തെയും ..................

yes..it's a golden notebook

an article on Doris Lessing's 'The Golden Notebook'

Described mostly as a ‘women’s book’, The Golden Notebook (1962) does indeed talk about the confusing and emotionally intense world of a middle-aged writer Anna. Though written long time back, the novel is still a success among avid readers due to its contemporary theme of passion for liberation from male superiority and patronizing, from superstitious ceremonies, etc. It is a full, complex story of a modern woman who tries to live with the freedom of a man.

The central character of the novel is a successful middle aged women writer, living alone with her young daughter. She occasionally rents out a room of her flat not for money but in order to find someone there in the otherwise empty and lonely house. Anna has already written a book about the experiences of a group of communists in colonial Africa that has been a bestseller, but she was not satisfied with her work. She has been abandoned by a lover and suffers from a writer’s block right now.

She keeps four notebooks, out of fear of a breakdown that might take place as a result of the fragmented state of her mind. Step by step, she goes over her experiences, her responses to life, eventually coming to terms with her growing disillusionment, her self-induced sexual betrayal, and her feelings of social and emotional rejection. Each notebook deals with a different experience of her life. The black notebook reviews her African experiences of early years. The red one records her political life, specifically her disillusionment with Communism. The yellow notebook deals with the fictionalized version of her own personal experiences, and the blue notebook is Anna’s personal diary.

Out of her fear that she might go insane due to the fragmented state of her mind, Anna tries to bring the threads of her life in all four books together in a final golden notebook. She kind of first views her life from all different angles as portrayed in the four notebooks, goes over her experiences, looking at her reactions to all of them and eventually manages to unify her identity in the golden notebook. She realizes her disillusionment with communism and the trauma caused by emotional and sexual betrayal and rejection by her lover, tries to understand professional anxieties as well as tensions of family and friends. In a way the novel can be taken as Anna journey to search for her true self. The novel is an excellent amalgam of sex, politics, and emotional breakdown. 

sirajsha