Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
I have surveyed all letters
from A to Z
found them humped, uneven,
close, crooked, club-footed,
weak, wild, weather-beaten,
protean, protruding, pouchy,
one-sided and vain-glorious,
dangling right or left in crisp mood,
the meeting points of the fallen
except the Himalayan H.
It’s simple, straight, cypress-like,
tall, open, and wide,
graceful, erect, without loops,
stately, unageing, youthful
Symmetrical and well-poised,
unchanging whether up or down,
inside out or outside in
the standing image of a springboard,
the sojourn and jump to wiry walkers.
This is the Lincoln among letters
without any verbiage.
It’s the worst offender to eyes
when small it is,
soon shrivells in size
becomes poor, parochial, insolvent,
a picture of three-dimensional crookedness,
the creeping creature moving in the garden
in search of easy prey.
But the H is
The Head, the Himalayas; and He.
–I. K. SHARMA
Jaipur