Shashi Travelling to Seek God | Finding the Divine Through Nature and Human Experience Travelling to Seek God Perhaps the greatest pilgrimage is not towards a shrine, but towards the world that God created. “See, feel and experience the world created by God for you.” Travel. Travel as much as you can. Go to Kashmir and … Read more
Father and Son | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Essays › Father and Son Father and Son It is a privilege to have parents. We know it but comprehend it in its entirety, a bit too late. Of all the relationships, a father and son relationship is never smooth and easy. Maybe for a few lucky … Read more
Thoughts of an Unyielding Mind | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Thoughts of an Unyielding Mind Thoughts of an Unyielding Mind Sometimes, feel I need a break Streams of chaos, mundane, frivolity And of despicable acts Meet the bloodied cruelty Of mutilated children in bomb shelters Going hungry Of children abused and … Read more
Pen | Writer’s Block Poem on Creative Silence | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Pen Pen A poem on writer’s block and creative silence I pick up my pen To write something The nib refusing to create words Stays stuck A tiny ink blot appears Watching my emotions Bereft of a single word Bleed … Read more
अमावस्या कविता | मराठी कविता | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar मुख्य पृष्ठ › मराठी कविता › अमावस्या अमावस्या दिसायची चंद्रकोर तरी नित्यनेमाने पौर्णिमेचे रूप पाहून अडकायचा श्वास छातीतल्या छातीत बिघडायचा ठेका हडबडलेल्या हृदयाचा तोल सावरतां सावरतां गडबडायचे पाय आणि पापण्या विस्फारून एकटक पहायचो साठवायला डोळ्यात तुझ्या गालावरच्या खळीमधून उसळणारे डोळ्यातून सांडणारे मोहिनी घालणारे स्मितहास्य कानात रूंजी घालणारा … Read more
Passing By | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Passing By Passing By By Shashikant Dudhgaonkar The summer street Stirs at dusk With pedestrians Young rambunctious crowd Talking whispering and laughing loud Some walking solo Glued to shiny screens A few zen monks Walked with measured steps Their AirPods drilling death metal Into … Read more
Sunset | A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Sunset Sunset Sun pierced my eyes As I took a left Pulled the visor down Half blinded The fiery orange ball Will inevitably be swallowed Jaws of horizon closing around it For a tepid death It will rise again So have many influential men … Read more
Collective Denial | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Collective Denial Collective Denial They have always won Never ever lost Anything And convey that to the world Loudly, subtly, indirectly In person, at gatherings And on social media With a belief strong In their own deceit Deep inside their souls Tired, stretched thin … Read more
Bloom | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Bloom Bloom Orange, yellow, red and grey flowers bloom in the towns one here, few more there many more they say downtown blossoms unheralded have arrived Birds dive from the clouds bees buzz and dart, night sky filled with falling stars spring has rushed in … Read more
अस्वस्थ | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home » Poems » अस्वस्थ अस्वस्थ आसपास आपल्या सारे आलबेल असते सकाळ दुपार सायंकाळ रात्र नेहमीप्रमाणे येते आणि जातेही घडत राहते बऱ्यापैकी सारे मनासारखे मात्र कोठेतरी दूर क्षितीजा पलिकडे ध्वस्त इमारती पेटलेल्या आगी आणि एकाच वेळी अकाली मारले गेलेल्या आत्म्यांचा धुमसत असतो धूर कोण चांगले कोण वाईट अनेक तज्ञ जोरजोरात खेकसत … Read more