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Meena Chopra

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Meena Chopra is an internationally known award-winning poet & visual artist with an unbridled passion for words, space, colours and forms. She has been practising her arts (Poetry and Visual Arts) for over three decades now. Born and brought up in Nainital, India, now lives in Toronto, Canada. Meena graduated from Isabella Thoburn College Lucknow. Later qualified as a designer from Delhi and then as an Artist Educator from RCM Ontario. After having a career as a designer for seven
years in the fashion and garment industry in India, later switched to fine arts & writing poetry. She simultaneously entrepreneured in advertising, marketing and media. She writes poetry both in English and her native language Hindi and has authored two poetry boo ...more

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The Eternal Nourisher (Bronze Server (Kaansa Katora) dated 1938 from mother’s Trousseau)

This bronze server, a treasured heirloom from my mother’s trousseau, has been a silent observer of our family’s daily rituals since 1938 or earlier. It was always present at mealtimes, resting on our wooden dining table. I remember my mother’s hands, graceful and practised, filling it with steaming dal or some times aromatic halwa. This poetry film and poem is also a part of my upcoming project

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In Search Of Sita: Revisiting Mythology

by Namita Gokhale

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The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran: All poems and short stories (Global Classics)

by Kahlil Gibran

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She! The Restless Streak

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" “SHE!”, the life force, the moving fearless female energy, subconsciously and unknowingly, has always been a predominant part of my art depicting genesis, whether it is in abstract forms, figurative forms or in the forms of verse.

I get totally spell “SHE!”, the life force, the moving fearless female energy, subconsciously and unknowingly, has always been a predominant part of my art depicting genesis, whether it is in abstract forms, figurative forms or in the forms of verse.

I get totally spell bound, whenever I see the sun dipping down into the glory of the golden skyline on the Canadian landscape, specifically so during the mesmerising Canadian fall with its undulating colours. The wild enchantress, the ever entrancing mystery of the nature, starts casting its enormous spell on my very being, seducing each and every passing moment of my life. And then, the eternal agony of human desire within, starts longing ceaselessly, striving to capture the very essence of the fleeting time.

The unknown reality, the mysterious, magical and enigmatic SHE! The Restless Streak - grabs the centre stage of all my imaginations with her splendour and vivacity; synergising every split second of my existence, revering the glory and the very nature of the everlasting stark female element of the entire universe, with all its lights and shadows, joys and pains. And then, SHE, starts her formidable journey descending on my blank canvases and sheets of paper, toning, tinting the stark lines and forms and at times colouring and filling my bare and impassive words with her unbound magical touch.

SHE is the “effect” constantly in search of its “cause”, the cosmic existence as well as liberation. SHE drastically and restlessly seeks for the mysterious quietude, the hidden power beyond this universe. SHE is the principle of growth and the change. SHE is the provider and the abundance. SHE is the one who offers nourishment, warmth, and security. SHE is the root of every experience of life. SHE is the active energy that both creates and dissolves. SHE is the basic nature of intelligence by which the universe exists and functions.

Original paintings are both in dry pastels on paper and acrylic on canvas in various sizes. A couple of them are digital also. About six poems in this collection are restructured versions from my earlier collection of poems “Ignited Lines”. A couple of poems are translations of my poems from my Hindi collection of poems in Subah Ka Suraj ab Mera Nahin Hai (An Adieu to the Dawn)
I also plan to bring out a translation of this book in Hindi in the near future.

-Meena Chopra (From the preface on the book) ...more "

Sep 02, 2018 11:36AM · see review

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“A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies
that have moulded them”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India

tags: language

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“...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

tags: linguistics

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“Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.”
― NIETZSCHE FREDERICH

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