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....
How quickly they decide
This right and that is wrong
and bring into their voice
vehemence, intensity and shrillness
and in their eyes the look of conviction
to convert the world.
Time was when sword in hand
They would set out for crusades
determined to bring light to the benighted
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though in the process spreading death and destruction
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such was their faith in their being
in the right and entitled to chastising the ignorant.
The bodies now they dare not hack and hew
unless the nations mutually agree to:
they are mercilessly hurting, lacerating
all such whose minds refuse to be bent and follow
the threatening self-appointed jeremiahs.
One such is enough with militancy in speech
born of unwavering faith in self-righteousness
consumed by the passion to make others like himself
to create hell-agony for the unsure ones
waiting, vacillating and groping
floundering through uncertainties, believing
in postponing to clinch the issue
and say the last word with a dismissive gesture.
When a gang is organized and dissent is stifled
with a strait-jacket for its emblem,
conformity like an armour with no chink its creed,
the spirits that are aflutter with new possibilities
disdaining to perch on neat formulas
are sure to be 鈥渃abin鈥檇, cribbed, confined.鈥�