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Geometrically, Spaceship Earth is a pentakis dodecahedron, with each of the 60 isosceles triangle faces divided into 16 smaller equilateral triangles (with a bit of fudging to make it rounder). Each of those 960 flat panels is sub-divided into four triangles, each of which is divided into three isosceles triangles to form each point. In theory, there are 11,520 total isosceles triangles forming 3840 points. In reality, some of those triangles are partially or fully nonexistent due to supports and doors; there are actually only 11,324 of them, with 954 partial or full flat panels.

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10th posi·ons respec·vely in a group of 19 major states..

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· Gujarat's ranking in terms of literacy rate deteriorated from the 5th to the 7th (for both 6 years and above, and 6-14.

years age group) among 15 major States between 2000 and 2008. In terms of propor·on of the people who are currently.

a!ending any educa·onal ins·tu·on, Gujarat's rank has deteriorated from the 21st to the 26th (6th to 10th among.

major 15 States) for the age group of 6-14 years during this period. Gujarat can also `boast' of having a higher gender.

gap in literacy levels (20 per cent) and those currently a!ending school (13.3 per cent) in the age group of 11 to 14,.

when compared with other States..

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· In health, Gujarat ranks 10th in the rate of decline in infant mortality. Moreover it is significantly higher among girls.

than boys. Gujarat doesn't do too well in terms of Life Expectancy : with the average longevity being 62.15 years it is.

in eighth place, below even Bihar's 62.85 years..

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· Incidence of under-nutri·on in Gujarat for the year 1998-99 was lower than the na·onal average across all social groups..

Disturbingly, in 2005-2006, under-nutri·on in Gujarat worsened in comparison with the na·onal average. The level.

of under-nutri·on for the SCs in Gujarat is close to the na·onal average and, for the STs, it is higher than the na·onal.

average. Malnutri·on is severe among children (47%) and women; higher than the all-India average..

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· 80% of children below 4 years and 60% of pregnant women are anemic..

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· 45% of urban children and 60% of rural children are not immunized..

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· In rural areas, 60% of child deliveries do not happen in ins·tu·onal condi·ons..

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· Rural poverty in Gujarat declined only by 2.5% in the last five years: be!er than the na·onal average but slower than.

Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu..

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· Sex ra·o in Gujarat is declining, and Gujarat has joined the states of Haryana and Punjab in this dubious `dis·nc·on'!.

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· In Global Hunger index, Gujarat is part of the bo!om 5 states in India..

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· In Gujarat, labour rights are virtually nonexistent!.

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· In social sector spending as a propor·on of public expenditure, Gujarat ranks a lowly 19 among India's 21 major states..

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· 5 million livelihoods have been lost in Gujarat owing to development projects: accoun·ng for 10% of the popula·on..

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What of Modi's So-called `Corruption-free Good Governance'??.

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Modi tried his level best to block the appointment of a Lokayukta in Gujarat for a very long ·me. Why? Because he was facing.

allega·ons of massive corrup·on and irregulari·es in at least 17 scams! For instance:.

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· Let's look at the material reasons for Ratan Tata's love for Narendra Modi. The Gujarat government allo!ed 1100 acres.

of land to Tata Motors Ltd to set up the Nano plant near Sanand at Rs 900 per square metre while its market rate was.

around Rs 10,000 per square metre. Further, Modi gave Ratan Tata a so" loan of Rs 9,570 crore at a negligible interest.

of 0.1 per cent to shi$ the Nano project to Gujarat. Repayment of this `loan' was deferred for 20 years. In all, the Modi.

Government has offered over Rs 30,000 crore in sops to Tata Motors. In other words, for an investment of Rs.220.

billion by the Tatas, the Gujarat government gives sops worth Rs.300 billion. No wonder, Ratan Tata says, "You are.

stupid if you are not in Gujarat!!!".

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· Land was allo!ed to Adani Group for the Mundra Port & Mundra Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Re1 per square metre..

Similarly land has been handed over to real estate developers like Raheja at dirt cheap rates, whereas the public sector.

Indian Airforce was asked to pay a MUCH higher price for land!.

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· In Gujarat, there have been several cases of viola·on of Coastal Regula·on Zones (CRZ) as well as forest conserva·on.

laws, in order to benefit corporate houses..

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These official facts and figures paint the true picture of Modi's famed `development' model: exclusive, benefi&ng a select.

few and deeply discriminatory. As per official records, 1180 people were murdered, 2548 injured, 919 women widowed,.

606 children orphaned, nearly 1,50,000 people forced into relief camps, 270 mosques and dargahs razed, and hundreds of.

houses burnt down in the Gujarat genocide of 2002. And we are now being told by the corporate-communal brigade to.

forget these figures, and start praising a FALSE model of so-called `development' which has been carefully scripted through.

propaga·ng lies and half-truths..

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What we are seeing is a essen·ally an a!empt to sani·ze Modi's communal-corporate model in the name of `pro-people.

good governance'! It is upto the progressive, democra·c and secular people of this country to take the challenge to expose.

this a!empt at sani·zing, to expose the real exclusionary, communal poli·cs of Narendra Modi and the Sangh brigade..

Towards this end, AISA has organized a Public Mee·ng tonight (10 February 2013) at Kaveri mess from 9.30 pm onwards.

to discuss the `Hype vs. and Reality of Gujarat's Development'. This mee·ng will be addressed by Dr. Atul Sood (CSRD),.

Shabnam Hashmi and Harsh Mander. We appeal to the student community to par·cipate in large numbers in this mee·ng..

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Ashutosh Kumar, Vice-President, AISA, JNU Sarfaraz, Jt. Secy, AISA, JNU.

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Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

Sidney Woodruff, graduate student, talks about the data they will be recording with Catelyn Bylsma, evolution, ecology and biodiversity major, and Raaghav Sexena, animal biology major, in the Arboretum on June 8, 2022.

The project involves assisting Dr. Brian Todd and Ph.D. Student Sidney Woodruff in a research study evaluating how native species respond to the removal of non-native species and waterway restoration. The research objectives are to investigate the abundance and population demography of the native Western pond turtle (Actineymys marmorata) and population response in growth and demography from the removal of non-native red-eared sliders. Natural populations of the Western pond turtle are found in the UC Davis Arboretum where red-eared sliders occupy the same ecological niche in high densities. Natural populations of Western pond turtles are found in the nearby South Fork of Putah Creek where the presence of non-native turtles is extremely low or nonexistent. This work can highlight the importance of waterway restoration in building a more resilient ecosystem while supporting the recovery and conservation of native species.

Providing this opportunity will allow undergraduate students to be involved in wildlife conservation research under the supervision of a graduate student mentor and PI while also supporting the objectives of this study and the restoration of the UC Davis Arboretum.

Stivan, a small settlement on Adriatic Sea island Cres in Kvarner bay, is an almost abandoned place. Incredibly stony ground, almost nonexistent arable soil, not close enough to the sea shore to be of interest for tourists, offers little to survive. Some old fig trees and olive trees and sheep, this is all one can rely on. But it is situated in a great landscape, in an open, rather flat (as the whole south part of the island) Mediterranean landscape, harsh, wind-swept and sunny, with mild spring and autumn climate and hot summers. Yet, 200 years ago men was capable not only to survive here but also to live full lives and to build large stony farmhouses like this one on my pictures. Now it is a ruin worth nothing, defeated by time and overtaken by Wulfen's Spurge (Euphorbia wulfeni).

Unfortunately, the original Holley carburetor was very worn out and parts for it are nonexistent. Thankfully the manifold was a standard size (2-1/8" if I remember right) and I was able to rebuild and mount a Zenith carb from a model A Ford.

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

that's where all his excess fat from UCSD will go! TO HIS NONEXISTENT MANBOOBS!

"Pure" water essentially is nonexistent in the natural environment. Natural water, whether in the atmosphere, on the ground surface, -visit www.coorgresortstay.com or www.coorgcfresort.blogspot.com

According to the Italo Calvino's novel "The Nonexistent Knight" Agilulfo, Carlo Magno'army hero, is just an empty armor, its life is based on its will and on its determination...

Original shot taken with an Olympus e500 digital reflex, 40-150mm zoom lens, heavy post processing.

This eel-like gunnel was identified by it's fairly large pectoral fin (on the other gunnels, this fin is tiny to nonexistent), overall color, and habitat. This species comes in an array of colors, from green to brown and is especially common in tidepools. Unfortunately, the diagnostic dark bar below the fish's eyes isn't visible in any of the photos.

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

Our electricity came back on at 6:19 p.m., about 11 hours after the voltage dropped from low to nonexistent. Here, Todd turns off one of our many battery-powered lanterns.

Hawai'i earthquake, 10/15/2006. While roads were destroyed, etc., on the Big Island, damage on Oahu was minimal, usually involving things falling from shelves, as well as power being shut off to the entire island as a precautionary measure.

Elements Project

supposed to represent asymmetrical balance

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I just noticed that I did a very poor job trying to remove a water spot on this photo with Photoshop...can you find it?

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LUCY i think this picture was in a slideshow mackey showed us today. lol

it was so random. like all of these pics taken from pros, and then yours pops up for asymmetric balance

i was like...that picture looks very familiar.

oh and people thought it was a good picture

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I'm really sad that the AFL's 2009 season was cancelled, and these billboards just pour salt in the wound.

Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful. Love that my camera and practically nonexistent 'skills' were able to capture the scar on the nose.

Bareback Unicrack bemoans the loss of (current) boyfriend Courtesy Flush. He is quite lost and cell service is nonexistent out here. Three intrepid hashers are backtracking trail in an effort to locate him before he falls off a cliff or is mistaken for a deer by a mountain lion.

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

see,we have infront of us some real cherry pie and a cup of damn good coffee (when in reality that is a Cola and the pie is actually an apple pie!! cherry pies are practically nonexistent where i live,cherries are rather expensive,and comes in few months only),so red handed jill is playing her part as shelley johnson.

Taking the children from Blind School - BERDO to the zoo was a shock to me as the upkeep of the zoo was nonexistent and enraged animals could be heard throughout the zoo howling, but for the children who can't see this was a successful trip as they got to hear many animals and were able to SMELL them and their wastes.

Intern Clare in front of the Torres Serranos, two towers that used to serve as defense towers for the now nonexistent city walls.

A truck is turned around on a turn table at the end of the Navy Elevated Causeway to ready it for shipping containers during Joint logistics Over The Shore 2008. Smaller boats carry the shipping containers from ships anchored at sea too the pier to be carried to shore. JLOTS is an exercise that increases the Army's and Navy's ability to build improvised ports for transporting equipment from ship to shore when a harbor or pier has been damaged or is nonexistent. Nearly 1,500 pieces of rolling equipment and shipping containers will be moved from ships with a series of lighterage systems (floating roadways) and smaller boats to improvised piers on the shore. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Stephen Proctor, JLOTS Public Affairs)

LIFE KINDLES THE FLAME OF POETRY

SPEECH at Central Sahitya Akademi “ Meet the Author” Program

Learned Friends, I am asked to speak on Creative Experience - in Literature. Creative experience is a time-worn subject. However I shall endeavour to say a few words in the light of my experience as a Poet.

Life kindles the flame of poetry, the poet being the 'wick' that burns to shed warmth and light. Sun can show visible objects like buildings, trees, rivers, birds, hills, people and so on. Poetry shows on the other hand, life with its joys and sorrows, secrets of life, problems of life and finally its solutions. Wisdom is given in capsules of 'metaphors' Metaphor is the basic unit of the poem.

Wise men say that it is not right to demystify poetry by submitting it to critical analysis which is perforce involved in a narration of creative experience. Nevertheless, no less than intellectuals defied this and analysed the Act of Creativity, in Art: and specially in poetry, volumes of criticism evolved from centuries on end. However to my knowledge no poet on his own explained how he got his symbols, metaphors and his Purple passages. Either the Poets or Critics said only in general terms in what state of mind the poet got his lines and what happened to one to reach that state of mind. In the East and to some extent in the West too, in the old world, Dialectics of Poetry was an intense activity in Literature and in the East particularly Indian Sahitya Sastra flowed down the centuries with uninterrupted continuity, perhaps from times earlier than the 4th Century B.C, down to about 16th/17th Centuries A.D.

Earliest known Rhetorician is Bharata in whose times Play and Ballad were the only dominant genres - but it is obvious that Bharata was the last Author on the Dialectics of Play - writing which indicates after a long duration of time Play- Writing was reduced to a trickle and eventually vanished. Then followed the endless period of kaavya. While in the Play action i.e, Abhinaya is the crucial factor, in Kaavya Metaphor i.e. Alankaara is the crucial factor. With Bhamaha probably in between the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. the Era of Kavya Shastra commenced ringing the curtain on the Natya and Natya Shastra. After Bharata nobody wrote a natyashastra. In the modern times in India, Play- Writing draws on the techniques of the Western Play.

This is only a preface to say that a narration involving critical analysis of how his symbols and metaphors are acquired by a Poet in the given cases will demystify the poetry and rob it of this enchantment. That too, it is bound to happen when the Poet himself indulges in such narration. Even the Critics do it, their analysis and interpretation are not uniformly the same but vary from each other whereby the mystery of poetry survives and the poetic enchantment continues. But when the poet comes out with the unfolding of his secret his statement becomes the final on the issue and the statements of the critics differing from that of the poet become invalid wholesale. Thus the art of Literature ceases to be 'the moveable feast', and becomes a dead fish by one such grievous mistake of the Poet.

Nonetheless I would speak in general terms how the Symbols and Metaphors that a Poet gets are like uninvited guests who spring a pleasant surprise on the host the Poet. After he comes out of the poem, the poet himself feels surprised how they came to him. In other words how they occurred to him. So the Symbols and Metaphors are not deliberately manipulated and captured like criminals by the police.

Symbols and Metaphors visit only those who have prepared themselves as the medium to receive those visitors. The poet is of course only the ordinary individual but with the difference that he cultured himself by going near and getting involved in life and Literature. By such a process of involvement one ceases to be the ordinary individual and becomes too sensitive and therefore suseptible to the invasion of life on him. He is final limit, and even a whiff of wind can knock out a note of melody from the vibrant strings. At this point the individual is called Poet Referring to this condition called 'poet' Bharata says Yortho hridaya samvaadee yasya bhaavo rasodbhavah Shareeram vyaapyathe thena shushkam kaashtham ivaagni naa. (the object with which the poet gets involved and thereby gets totally involved due to constant engrossment with it, spreads through out his body from head to foot, like fire spreads through a piece of dry wood). The French poet Beaudelaire said that the poet reaches this condition by 'perfected sensibility' and the Spanish poet Lorca called it 'sensibility perfected by reading and experience'.

It is in this condition that the poet's physical EYES become inert so to say and the THIRD EYE the metaphysical eye opens. The third eye is the VISION which sees the invisible things through the visible things; that is, 'the thing in itself" as kant called it.

Charles Baudelaire lines are for instance useful here to explain what I said 'the furniture appears to be dreaming and the cloth materials speak a silent language like flowers', 'the vast park abandons itself to the eye of the scorching sun like Youth to the domination of love' here 'furniture', 'cloth materials', 'flowers', 'park', 'sun', etc., are seen by the physical eye but 'furniture dreaming', 'silent speech of flowers', etc., can only be seen by the metaphysical eye which is called by the Indian Kaavya Shastra 'darshanam'. 'Naanrishih kavirithyukthah rishishcha kila darshanaath/ samastha vasthu dharmamscha tatva prakhyaa cha darshanam'. (kaavya koutukam by Tauta Bhatta). Balzac called it the 'second vision and the greaf Russian Poet Mayakovsky described it as 'the celebrated absent - mindedness of the poet'.

But the most vivid and appealing description of the condition called 'poet' is given by Sharada Tanaya in his Bhava Prakasham as follows. 'parasyasukhaduhkhadeh anubhavena chetasah tadbhava bhavanam yena bhavet tadanukoolathahtat satwam' he says that Satva Guna which an individual attains by abhyaasa i.e. practice renders him emotionally too delicate, too kind and extremely sympathetic, by which he is pained when his fellow-being is pained, he is happy when his fellow being is happy. Here fellow-being includes all the living beings of the creation. This is called 'karuna vedithwa' in Ramayan. 'tathahkarunavedithwaath adharmoya miti dwijah nishaamya rudateem krauncheem idham vachana mabraveeth' - The more famous line is 'shokhah shlokathwa maagathah' so out of 'shoka' the poet rises like the sun. 'shoka' here is equivalent to 'RASA' taadaathmya.

The poet in this condition characteristially reacts with great vehemence against 'adharma' i.e, 'injustice' and takes the side of dharma i.e justice, spontaneously. This is how the poet is the real supreme court of a country. I think enough is said of the magnificent role of the creative artist.

Thank you.

Central Sahitya Academy

February 22nd, 1995

New Delhi: India

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Visionary Poet of the Millennium

An Indian poet Prophet

Seshendra Sharma

October 20th, 1927 - May 30th, 2007

Visionary Poet of the Millennium

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Rivers and poets

Are veins and arteries

Of a country.

Rivers flow like poems

For animals, for birds

And for human beings-

The dreams that rivers dream

Bear fruit in the fields

The dreams that poets dream

Bear fruit in the people-

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The sunshine of my thought fell on the word

And its long shadow fell upon the century

Sun was playing with the early morning flowers

Time was frightened at the sight of the martyr-

- Seshendra Sharma

"We are children of a century which has seen revolutions, awakenment of large masses of people over the earth and their emancipation from slavery and colonialism wresting equality from the hands of brute forces and forging links of brotherhood across mankind.

This century has seen peaks of human knowledge; unprecedented intercourse of peoples and

perhaps for the first time saw the world stand on the brink of the dilemma of one world or destruction.

It is a very inspiring century, its achievements are unique.

A poet who is not conscious of this context fails in his existence as poet."

-Seshendra Sharma

(From his introduction to his “Poet’s notebook "THE ARC OF BLOOD" )

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B.A: Andhra Christian College: Guntur: A.P: India

B.L : Madras University: Madras

Deputy Municipal Commissioner (37 Years)

Dept of Municipal Administration, Government of Andhra Pradesh

Parents: G.Subrahmanyam (Father) ,Ammayamma (Mother)

Siblings: Anasuya,Devasena (Sisters),Rajasekharam(Younger brother)

Wife: Mrs.Janaki Sharma

Children: Vasundhara , Revathi (Daughters),

Vanamaali ,Saatyaki (Sons)

Seshendra Sharma is one of the most outstanding minds of modern Asia. He is the foremost of the Telugu poets today who has turned poetry to the gigantic strides of human history and embellished literature with the thrills and triumphs of the 20th century. A revolutionary poet who spurned the pedestrian and pedantic poetry equally, a brilliant critic and a scholar of Sanskrit, this versatile poet has breathed a new vision of modernity to his vernacular.Such minds place Telugu on the world map of intellectualism. Readers conversant with names like Paul Valery, Gauguin, and Dag Hammarskjold will have to add the name of Seshendra Sharma the writer from India to that dynasty of intellectuals.

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Seshendra Sharma better known as Seshendra isa colossus of Modern Indian poetry.

His literature is a unique blend of the best of poetry and poetics.

Diversity and depth of his literary interests and his works

are perhaps hitherto unknown in Indian literature.

From poetry to poetics, from Mantra Sastra to Marxist Politics his writings bear an unnerving pprint of his rare genius.

His scholarship and command over Sanskrit , English and Telugu Languages has facilitated his emergence as a towering personality of comparative literature in the 20th century world literature.

T.S.Eliot ,ArchbaldMacleish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.

His sense of dedication to the genre of art he chooses to express himself and

the determination to reach the depths of subject he undertakes to explore

place him in the galaxy of world poets / world intellectuals.

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Seshendra Sharma : Scholar - Poet

Seshendra Sharma, a scholar - poet was born (October 20, 1927) into a Pujari ( Priests ) family in Nellore District in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India . Seshendra’s father and his grandfather were well versed in Sanskrit Literature, Vedas and scriptures. At home itself, thus from his childhood , Seshendra got the opportunity of learning and training in Sanskrit. This was further nurtured by the Village school of Thotapalligudur, where he spent best part of his childhood.

Seshendra’s father was a well-to-do person, a Munsif ( village officer ) of the village, possessing more than Ten Acres of agricultural Wet land and own house . Father’s desire to see his son flower into a top man turned a new leaf in Seshendra’s life. Seshendra’s father admitted him for B.A. Graduation course in Andhra Christian College in Guntur. Incidentally, Seshendra’s Family Sir Name and this town’s name are one and the same. This is a turning point in the budding poet’s journey. Seshendra got significant exposure to the Western World, particularly to the Western Literature. The makings of a Visionary Poet germinated in him in this Alma Mater. His journey of poetry started with Translation of Mathew Arnold’s “Sohrab and Rustum “ , a long poem , which Seshendra translated into Telugu in Metrical poetry with accomplished finesse . This trend eventually blossomed and Seshendra emerged as an Epic – Poet. His My Country – My People : Modern Indian Epic is observed by learned critics as a land mark in modern poetry ranking it on par with T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land . This long poem was nominated for Nobel Prize in 2004. His subsequent works Gorilla, Turned into water and fled away, Ocean is my name – long poems were reviewed in scholarly strain.

Seshendra’s desire to perform in films took him to Madras, today’s Chennai in Tamil Nadu. In Madras he formally joined B.L. Course with Madras Law College. And was developing contacts in the Telugu Cinema Circles and was working as a freelance journalist. He used to translate articles into Telugu for Janavani , a popular weekly of those times whose editor was Tapi Dharma Rao , a towering personality of Telugu Literature. This facet of journalism of his personality rose to its full heights in 90s. When Soviet Union collapsed he wrote a series of articles in Telugu as well as in English decrying the west’s sinister plot, villainous machinations to pull down Communist Regimes. He sang odes / Laurels to communism and expressed in aggressive tone and style that communism will never die. It remains in the genes of oppressed peoples of the world for ever. Perhaps Seshendra is the only poet from the Indian Subcontinent to pen Anti – Imperialist essays during those times. He completed his Law course but his desire to act in films remained unfulfilled. Seshendra’s Classmates at his Alma Mater, A.C.College, Guntur, N.T.Rama Rao and Kongara Jaggaiah became popular actors of Telugu Cinema. N.T.R became an all time super –hero. Seshendra’s father and maternal uncle forcibly brought him back from Madras, and with the good offices of native Member of Parliament put him in Government service as Deputy Panchayat Officer. In due course of time, on deputation, joined Municipal Administration Department and worked as Municipal Commissioner in all Major cities and towns of Andhra Pradesh. With the result he got wide exposure to conditions of social life of his times. He obtained personal acquaintance of Common Man’s life and his travails. This enriched his vision of life and literature a great deal.

With Seshendra Poetry and Poetics are Siamese Twins. He penned works of Literary Criticism both on classical and contemporary poetry. Sahitya Kaumudi (Telugu ) and his bi-lingual book “ the ARC of Blood : My Note Book “ illustrate this point. His Research work on Valmiki’s Ramayana , Shodasi : Secrets of The Ramayana , questions the very foundations of centuries old assumptions. Seshendra, based on scientific research citing from the original text of Valmiki and Vedas, reveals that The Ramayana is not just story of Rama told in enchanting poetry , But the Sage wrote the epic to spread Kundalini Yoga among the masses of his era. His observations that the concepts of Vishnu and Reincarnation were non –existent during Valmiki’s Epoch constitute a revolt against centuries old beliefs. Sita is the central character of The Ramayana and she is Kundalini Shakti / Adi Para Shakthi . During that era temples and prayers were nonexistent. This hits directly at the very foundation of Temple System.

His Kavisena Manifesto , is a noteworthy work on Modern Poetics. In this work, he compiles cogently definitions of poetry cutting across centuries and countries and writes scintillating commentary. This Manifesto of Modern Poetry is a sort of Wikipedia page of world poetry. Seshendra, finally concludes that poetry is emotions and feelings skilfully garbed in unusual diction, and poetry is a way of life.

Discerning scholars critics and academics are of intrinsic opinion that T.S.Eliot ,Archibald MacLeish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.

But this Scholar – poet of 20th century is an unsung and unwept genius of his times.

Prime Minister of India honoured Seshendra with Gold Medal in Sahitya Akademi ( India ) Golden Jubilee celebrations and Chief Minister of AP honoured him with Hansa Literary Award on the eve of UGADI , Telugu New Year Day in 2005 .

In one of his poems he says fragrance of stars is calling me. Seshendra left this world and vanished into fragrance of galaxies on May 30, 2007.

March was not a good weather month in Portland. We got twice the normal amount of rainfall and the sun has been virtually nonexistent. But spring is coming and the cherry trees at Waterfront Park have burst into bloom this past week. I headed down there this morning to check it out. Oh man, was I ever happy to see these blossoms! I'm so DONE with winter!

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

NARAYANA BABU - CRITIC'S DELIGHT

-Seshendra Sharma

Visionary Poet of the Millennium

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If we pass through the relevant recorded material like Ronanki's preface to Srirangam Narayana Babu and the latter's preface called "Pravara" and some pages of Sri Sri, we find Ronanki, Narayana Babu and Sri Sri are the three known figures in Telugu literature of the thirties to have developed a living communication and awareness with the European literary thought strongly predominated by symbolism and surrealism. Symbolism and surrealism found their expression in Narayana Babu and Sri Sri. While symbolism was the domineering note in the poetry of Narayan Babu, surrealism was domineering in Sri Sri. However, Sri Sri quickly drifted away from this intellectual milieu and came completely under the shade of progressive writer's organisation. While Narayana Babu moulded his theme of revolution in undiluted artistic terms and stood devoted to values of poetry, Sri Sri hurriedly assigned a secondary place to poetic values and devoted himself entirely to political exploitation of the prevailing situation. Incidentally, I must take this opportunity to insist that every student of modern Telugu literature should read "Rudhirajyoti" the celebrated verse of Srirangam Narayana Babu and I can certainly assure the readers of immense aesthetic satisfaction in the unique poems of Narayana Babu as well as the most scintillating introduction of Dr. Ronanki Appalaswamy. Another attractive feature of this volume is the preface of the poet in which he dwells on the highly sophisticated concepts of literature evolved in modern Europe, in such a way that to this day no Telugu critic or poet could reach anywhere near him on those subjects. The quality of Chalam's preface to Sri Sri is not superior to that of Ronanki's to Narayana Babu. The rhetoric of Chalam's preface suits the rhetoric of Sri Sri's poetry, whereas the aesthetic mood of the contemplative style of Ronanki's preface fits the style and architecture of Narayana Babu's poetry. It may be noted however that rhetoric in any poetry, either oriental or Occidental is an alien substance. In Telugu literature we do not find the complete spectrum of intellectual variations of modern European literature : Here it was direct âı¿+O„^Œ 221 jump from Romanticism into Progressivism. The logic of events that occurred in Europe was peculiar to that area of the world and cannot be transplanted elsewhere. And the few writers who spoke of or adopted in their writing surrealism and such other schools, did so only by way of fashion and not by any compulsion of an inner conviction. Their understanding of those movements also was accordingly superficial. However, here Dr. Ronanki and Narayana Babu are clearly exceptions since their work speaks of their profound understanding of these sophisticated theories. Narayana Babu's poetry is, more than literature, a sad tale. In fact Narayana Babu is a great civilisation buried in the geological depths of the treachery called Telugu literature : he is a legend lingering like a tear in the memory of a minority. He was a lone traveller clambering the hazardous heights of a most whimsical art called poetry. He wrote on tears, sighs, hunger, children, mothers, lepers, poets, factories, revolt, rebellion and death a whole nightmare of life. All the tempers and tensions of today's man found expression in his art. Often his poems convey no particular meaning to a casual reader but definitely conveyed a violent feeling to the cautious one. Poetry in fact is the pleasure of the cautious and the cultivated reader. Usually Narayana Babu wrote in simple words but it was a strange language not known to other poets. In his poems often there are no sentences and over his expression the natural laws of languages fail. We see in him a certain capricious behaviour of language like for instance structural disorders in syntax when the poem becomes a mere gathering of words entirely existing on the evocative powers of each word. His words are like dreams, like incantations and musical notes. It looks as if each work is an autonomous kingdom with its own powers, to rule the mind of the reader: and around each word there are countless constellations of images, gallaxies of feelings, emotions and obsessions - a whole universe of beautiful creation. Giant metaphors like "iraavatapu pandi ardha chandrudu," images like "blood smeared moon" in "Ghataakaash" are most haunting. (Ghataakash is a wellknown technical term of vedantic philosophy carrying numerous picture - associations like village, cactus bushes in the outskirts, afternoon, ektara wandering saffron-robed bhikshus and so on) 222 ™êÇ≤Ï`«º^Œi≈x Thus Narayana Babu's poems have a beauty of image and harmony which do not depend on meaning. Reading his poetry, an informed critic will derive more or less the same pleasure as one gets reading the poetry of the French symbolists. In the days when he was writing his poems he was alone in his style and I think he is the first and the last symbolist poet in Telugu. I know of no other poet also in other Indian languages during that period writing like him in the language of images, 'writing with words and not ideas' writing like 'a seer'. To know the conditions of those days when Narayana Babu began writing the poems of "Rudhira-Jyoti" and Sri Sri started his poems of "Mahaprasthanam", it is necessary to read the introduction of Ronanki to Narayana Babu's poems and Narayana Babu's preface itself, both of which are printed in 'Rudhira-jyoti' They are virtually windows to the world of literary architecture rising in those days and slowly changing the skyline of Telugu poetry and thought. In Telugu it is always the poet who brought in the modernity and the critic took unduly long time to catch up with him unlike in languages like English, Hindi etc., to this day modern critics of Telugu are unfortunately not really modern. They are still stuck up in the slushy period of Nannaya, Tikkana, etc. Their very work exudes the stench of the old world. (and the two or three informed sensitive critics that we have in Telugu, unfortunately do not maintain consistency for reasons best known to themselves). Our critics have always missed them deliberately overlooked it. In fact if we read the introduction of Ronanki or the preface of Narayana Babu, we will realise that their poetic sensibility, their awareness of the literary modernity as gifted by the west and their ability and vision to conceive and mould the image and expression are far superior to any of the present day poets or critics. Curiously enough, Narayana Babu speaks in his "Pravara", on the vision of the 'word, the music of the word, the concept of the unconscious and so on, all of which are ultra modern French ideas though essentially oriental in their genesis. âı¿+O„^Œ 223 Ronanki introduces Telugu people in the 15th, 16th pages of his introduction to the subtle and sophisticated theories of European literature of the 20th century, to the flowering of the modern mind in the west, specially to the world of literary gods, Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Valery, etc., he was also referring in a sense to the celebrated concept of rational disordering of senses (Rimbaud) while dwelling on Narayana Babu's images of "White taste," "Silver sound music" and so on. I was really surprised when I read the sentence in the introduction stating that he was going 'mad' with Narayana Babu's images like "iravatapu pandi-ardha-chandrudu" (XVI) I have not read another critic to this day in Telugu who goes ecstatic on an image. It is an unmistakable indication of his genuine quality as critic. At once I was reminded of the great French philosopher Jacques Maritain quoting plato in his 'creative intution in art and poetry. "Insisting that any rational criticism is null and void if the critic has not first been attracted by the rings of inspiration and invaded by the same madness which is in the poet" (P. 324) Ronanki eminently fits into this conception of Maritain. There is one significant point worth noticing in Ronanki's introduction and that is, his attempt to unfold the aesthetic content of Narayana Babu's symbols lays foundations of the technique of enjoying a modern poem.

Indian Express : English Daily

Hyderabad. 17th May 1986

The Indian Express

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Visionary Poet of the Millennium

An Indian poet Prophet

Seshendra Sharma

October 20th, 1927 - May 30th, 2007

Visionary Poet of the Millennium

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www.facebook.com/GunturuSeshendraSharma/

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Rivers and poets

Are veins and arteries

Of a country.

Rivers flow like poems

For animals, for birds

And for human beings-

The dreams that rivers dream

Bear fruit in the fields

The dreams that poets dream

Bear fruit in the people-

•* * * * *

The sunshine of my thought fell on the word

And its long shadow fell upon the century

Sun was playing with the early morning flowers

Time was frightened at the sight of the martyr-

- Seshendra Sharma

"We are children of a century which has seen revolutions, awakenment of large masses of people over the earth and their emancipation from slavery and colonialism wresting equality from the hands of brute forces and forging links of brotherhood across mankind.

This century has seen peaks of human knowledge; unprecedented intercourse of peoples and

perhaps for the first time saw the world stand on the brink of the dilemma of one world or destruction.

It is a very inspiring century, its achievements are unique.

A poet who is not conscious of this context fails in his existence as poet."

-Seshendra Sharma

(From his introduction to his “Poet’s notebook "THE ARC OF BLOOD" )

•* * * * *

B.A: Andhra Christian College: Guntur: A.P: India

B.L : Madras University: Madras

Deputy Municipal Commissioner (37 Years)

Dept of Municipal Administration, Government of Andhra Pradesh

Parents: G.Subrahmanyam (Father) ,Ammayamma (Mother)

Siblings: Anasuya,Devasena (Sisters),Rajasekharam(Younger brother)

Wife: Mrs.Janaki Sharma

Children: Vasundhara , Revathi (Daughters),

Vanamaali ,Saatyaki (Sons)

Seshendra Sharma is one of the most outstanding minds of modern Asia. He is the foremost of the Telugu poets today who has turned poetry to the gigantic strides of human history and embellished literature with the thrills and triumphs of the 20th century. A revolutionary poet who spurned the pedestrian and pedantic poetry equally, a brilliant critic and a scholar of Sanskrit, this versatile poet has breathed a new vision of modernity to his vernacular.Such minds place Telugu on the world map of intellectualism. Readers conversant with names like Paul Valery, Gauguin, and Dag Hammarskjold will have to add the name of Seshendra Sharma the writer from India to that dynasty of intellectuals.

* * *

Seshendra Sharma better known as Seshendra isa colossus of Modern Indian poetry.

His literature is a unique blend of the best of poetry and poetics.

Diversity and depth of his literary interests and his works

are perhaps hitherto unknown in Indian literature.

From poetry to poetics, from Mantra Sastra to Marxist Politics his writings bear an unnerving pprint of his rare genius.

His scholarship and command over Sanskrit , English and Telugu Languages has facilitated his emergence as a towering personality of comparative literature in the 20th century world literature.

T.S.Eliot ,ArchbaldMacleish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.

His sense of dedication to the genre of art he chooses to express himself and

the determination to reach the depths of subject he undertakes to explore

place him in the galaxy of world poets / world intellectuals.

Seshendra’seBooks :http://kinige.com/author/Gunturu+Seshendra+Sharma

Seshendra Sharma’s Writings Copyright © Saatyaki S/o Seshendra Sharma

Contact :saatyaki@gmail.com+919441070985+917702964402

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Seshendra Sharma : Scholar - Poet

Seshendra Sharma, a scholar - poet was born (October 20, 1927) into a Pujari ( Priests ) family in Nellore District in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India . Seshendra’s father and his grandfather were well versed in Sanskrit Literature, Vedas and scriptures. At home itself, thus from his childhood , Seshendra got the opportunity of learning and training in Sanskrit. This was further nurtured by the Village school of Thotapalligudur, where he spent best part of his childhood.

Seshendra’s father was a well-to-do person, a Munsif ( village officer ) of the village, possessing more than Ten Acres of agricultural Wet land and own house . Father’s desire to see his son flower into a top man turned a new leaf in Seshendra’s life. Seshendra’s father admitted him for B.A. Graduation course in Andhra Christian College in Guntur. Incidentally, Seshendra’s Family Sir Name and this town’s name are one and the same. This is a turning point in the budding poet’s journey. Seshendra got significant exposure to the Western World, particularly to the Western Literature. The makings of a Visionary Poet germinated in him in this Alma Mater. His journey of poetry started with Translation of Mathew Arnold’s “Sohrab and Rustum “ , a long poem , which Seshendra translated into Telugu in Metrical poetry with accomplished finesse . This trend eventually blossomed and Seshendra emerged as an Epic – Poet. His My Country – My People : Modern Indian Epic is observed by learned critics as a land mark in modern poetry ranking it on par with T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land . This long poem was nominated for Nobel Prize in 2004. His subsequent works Gorilla, Turned into water and fled away, Ocean is my name – long poems were reviewed in scholarly strain.

Seshendra’s desire to perform in films took him to Madras, today’s Chennai in Tamil Nadu. In Madras he formally joined B.L. Course with Madras Law College. And was developing contacts in the Telugu Cinema Circles and was working as a freelance journalist. He used to translate articles into Telugu for Janavani , a popular weekly of those times whose editor was Tapi Dharma Rao , a towering personality of Telugu Literature. This facet of journalism of his personality rose to its full heights in 90s. When Soviet Union collapsed he wrote a series of articles in Telugu as well as in English decrying the west’s sinister plot, villainous machinations to pull down Communist Regimes. He sang odes / Laurels to communism and expressed in aggressive tone and style that communism will never die. It remains in the genes of oppressed peoples of the world for ever. Perhaps Seshendra is the only poet from the Indian Subcontinent to pen Anti – Imperialist essays during those times. He completed his Law course but his desire to act in films remained unfulfilled. Seshendra’s Classmates at his Alma Mater, A.C.College, Guntur, N.T.Rama Rao and Kongara Jaggaiah became popular actors of Telugu Cinema. N.T.R became an all time super –hero. Seshendra’s father and maternal uncle forcibly brought him back from Madras, and with the good offices of native Member of Parliament put him in Government service as Deputy Panchayat Officer. In due course of time, on deputation, joined Municipal Administration Department and worked as Municipal Commissioner in all Major cities and towns of Andhra Pradesh. With the result he got wide exposure to conditions of social life of his times. He obtained personal acquaintance of Common Man’s life and his travails. This enriched his vision of life and literature a great deal.

With Seshendra Poetry and Poetics are Siamese Twins. He penned works of Literary Criticism both on classical and contemporary poetry. Sahitya Kaumudi (Telugu ) and his bi-lingual book “ the ARC of Blood : My Note Book “ illustrate this point. His Research work on Valmiki’s Ramayana , Shodasi : Secrets of The Ramayana , questions the very foundations of centuries old assumptions. Seshendra, based on scientific research citing from the original text of Valmiki and Vedas, reveals that The Ramayana is not just story of Rama told in enchanting poetry , But the Sage wrote the epic to spread Kundalini Yoga among the masses of his era. His observations that the concepts of Vishnu and Reincarnation were non –existent during Valmiki’s Epoch constitute a revolt against centuries old beliefs. Sita is the central character of The Ramayana and she is Kundalini Shakti / Adi Para Shakthi . During that era temples and prayers were nonexistent. This hits directly at the very foundation of Temple System.

His Kavisena Manifesto , is a noteworthy work on Modern Poetics. In this work, he compiles cogently definitions of poetry cutting across centuries and countries and writes scintillating commentary. This Manifesto of Modern Poetry is a sort of Wikipedia page of world poetry. Seshendra, finally concludes that poetry is emotions and feelings skilfully garbed in unusual diction, and poetry is a way of life.

Discerning scholars critics and academics are of intrinsic opinion that T.S.Eliot ,Archibald MacLeish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.

But this Scholar – poet of 20th century is an unsung and unwept genius of his times.

Prime Minister of India honoured Seshendra with Gold Medal in Sahitya Akademi ( India ) Golden Jubilee celebrations and Chief Minister of AP honoured him with Hansa Literary Award on the eve of UGADI , Telugu New Year Day in 2005 .

In one of his poems he says fragrance of stars is calling me. Seshendra left this world and vanished into fragrance of galaxies on May 30, 2007.

Free for non-commercial use with attribution. Credit: Daniel Silliman.

With FBI attempts to break a nonexistent code in letters to WWII missionaries.

Dry & hot, palm trees waving in a nonexistent breeze. Feels like the desert.

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

Today felt light and airy and nonexistent in a good way.

don't lose, just let loose

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.

Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.

Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov

Hell, the cesspit of evil and torment. The place where no light shines and no good exists. Well except for Grin....sorta. Grin was once just a lowly imp who had the whip cracked against him as much as those damned there for eternity. He Strove to rise up through the ranks of demons despite his drive was nearly nonexistent. He had always been told he had the potential to be a greater demon if he only gave a damn or even showed enthusiasm. Really he wanted to bother the living and constantly schemed to escape hell and run rampant among those who didn't deserve it. He was constantly stopped from escaping until finally he got angry and well....dug upwards. It took over a thousand years to break to the surface where humans were still alive. Well first things first he rolled around on the ground in sheer torment as his first experience with light didn't go well with his eyes. Eventually he made his way towards a city and began to swarm at humans at random, fidning bullets and other human tools of defense nothing but a fly swat to what he was used to. However when he was laughing after his latest trick he rummaged through the stuff the man had dropped and found a fast food burger. Smelling slightly of charred flesh he bit into it and was swarmed by the taste of human food and became obsessed. Now he only attacks those with food or as he had learned, those with money to buy food. The city has by now almost gotten used to him as he has proven to not be particularly a dangerous creature, becoming the local legend though his tricks are to be avoided at all costs.

I'm gobsmacked by several things here. First, the light was nonexistent. Yet the Sony A7RII performed extremely well at incredibly high ISO. Second, using knowledge developed around a digital Zone System, I knew precisely where I wanted the tonal values and was able to place them accordingly. Third, I am happy to confirm the dynamic range of the sensor extends usefully to below Zone 0 (Zone -2!), even at such high ISO settings. Fourth, 1950s German optics can do the trick. These images were made using a triplet wide angle. Who would design such a thing and make it work? Micro-contrast is something to be seen, otherwise you wouldn't believe it.

The Narrows are also known for the hanging gardens, a local term for plants that grow in small crevices supported by the water dripping down slickrock, are seen here. As the water slowly seeps through the Navajo Sandstone, they may be hundreds of years old. Hence the water supply is consistent, and useful in the desert where water tends to come in floods or be nonexistent.

Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Springdale, Utah

Visionary Poet of the Millennium

An Indian poet Prophet

Seshendra Sharma

October 20th, 1927 - May 30th, 2007

Visionary Poet of the Millennium

seshendrasharma.weebly.com/

seshen.tributes.in/

www.facebook.com/GunturuSeshendraSharma/

archive.org/details/@saatyaki_s_o_seshendra_sharma

Rivers and poets

Are veins and arteries

Of a country.

Rivers flow like poems

For animals, for birds

And for human beings-

The dreams that rivers dream

Bear fruit in the fields

The dreams that poets dream

Bear fruit in the people-

•* * * * *

The sunshine of my thought fell on the word

And its long shadow fell upon the century

Sun was playing with the early morning flowers

Time was frightened at the sight of the martyr-

- Seshendra Sharma

"We are children of a century which has seen revolutions, awakenment of large masses of people over the earth and their emancipation from slavery and colonialism wresting equality from the hands of brute forces and forging links of brotherhood across mankind.

This century has seen peaks of human knowledge; unprecedented intercourse of peoples and

perhaps for the first time saw the world stand on the brink of the dilemma of one world or destruction.

It is a very inspiring century, its achievements are unique.

A poet who is not conscious of this context fails in his existence as poet."

-Seshendra Sharma

(From his introduction to his “Poet’s notebook "THE ARC OF BLOOD" )

•* * * * *

B.A: Andhra Christian College: Guntur: A.P: India

B.L : Madras University: Madras

Deputy Municipal Commissioner (37 Years)

Dept of Municipal Administration, Government of Andhra Pradesh

Parents: G.Subrahmanyam (Father) ,Ammayamma (Mother)

Siblings: Anasuya,Devasena (Sisters),Rajasekharam(Younger brother)

Wife: Mrs.Janaki Sharma

Children: Vasundhara , Revathi (Daughters),

Vanamaali ,Saatyaki (Sons)

Seshendra Sharma is one of the most outstanding minds of modern Asia. He is the foremost of the Telugu poets today who has turned poetry to the gigantic strides of human history and embellished literature with the thrills and triumphs of the 20th century. A revolutionary poet who spurned the pedestrian and pedantic poetry equally, a brilliant critic and a scholar of Sanskrit, this versatile poet has breathed a new vision of modernity to his vernacular.Such minds place Telugu on the world map of intellectualism. Readers conversant with names like Paul Valery, Gauguin, and Dag Hammarskjold will have to add the name of Seshendra Sharma the writer from India to that dynasty of intellectuals.

* * *

Seshendra Sharma better known as Seshendra isa colossus of Modern Indian poetry.

His literature is a unique blend of the best of poetry and poetics.

Diversity and depth of his literary interests and his works

are perhaps hitherto unknown in Indian literature.

From poetry to poetics, from Mantra Sastra to Marxist Politics his writings bear an unnerving pprint of his rare genius.

His scholarship and command over Sanskrit , English and Telugu Languages has facilitated his emergence as a towering personality of comparative literature in the 20th century world literature.

T.S.Eliot ,ArchbaldMacleish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.

His sense of dedication to the genre of art he chooses to express himself and

the determination to reach the depths of subject he undertakes to explore

place him in the galaxy of world poets / world intellectuals.

Seshendra’seBooks :http://kinige.com/author/Gunturu+Seshendra+Sharma

Seshendra Sharma’s Writings Copyright © Saatyaki S/o Seshendra Sharma

Contact :saatyaki@gmail.com+919441070985+917702964402

------------------------

Seshendra Sharma : Scholar - Poet

Seshendra Sharma, a scholar - poet was born (October 20, 1927) into a Pujari ( Priests ) family in Nellore District in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India . Seshendra’s father and his grandfather were well versed in Sanskrit Literature, Vedas and scriptures. At home itself, thus from his childhood , Seshendra got the opportunity of learning and training in Sanskrit. This was further nurtured by the Village school of Thotapalligudur, where he spent best part of his childhood.

Seshendra’s father was a well-to-do person, a Munsif ( village officer ) of the village, possessing more than Ten Acres of agricultural Wet land and own house . Father’s desire to see his son flower into a top man turned a new leaf in Seshendra’s life. Seshendra’s father admitted him for B.A. Graduation course in Andhra Christian College in Guntur. Incidentally, Seshendra’s Family Sir Name and this town’s name are one and the same. This is a turning point in the budding poet’s journey. Seshendra got significant exposure to the Western World, particularly to the Western Literature. The makings of a Visionary Poet germinated in him in this Alma Mater. His journey of poetry started with Translation of Mathew Arnold’s “Sohrab and Rustum “ , a long poem , which Seshendra translated into Telugu in Metrical poetry with accomplished finesse . This trend eventually blossomed and Seshendra emerged as an Epic – Poet. His My Country – My People : Modern Indian Epic is observed by learned critics as a land mark in modern poetry ranking it on par with T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land . This long poem was nominated for Nobel Prize in 2004. His subsequent works Gorilla, Turned into water and fled away, Ocean is my name – long poems were reviewed in scholarly strain.

Seshendra’s desire to perform in films took him to Madras, today’s Chennai in Tamil Nadu. In Madras he formally joined B.L. Course with Madras Law College. And was developing contacts in the Telugu Cinema Circles and was working as a freelance journalist. He used to translate articles into Telugu for Janavani , a popular weekly of those times whose editor was Tapi Dharma Rao , a towering personality of Telugu Literature. This facet of journalism of his personality rose to its full heights in 90s. When Soviet Union collapsed he wrote a series of articles in Telugu as well as in English decrying the west’s sinister plot, villainous machinations to pull down Communist Regimes. He sang odes / Laurels to communism and expressed in aggressive tone and style that communism will never die. It remains in the genes of oppressed peoples of the world for ever. Perhaps Seshendra is the only poet from the Indian Subcontinent to pen Anti – Imperialist essays during those times. He completed his Law course but his desire to act in films remained unfulfilled. Seshendra’s Classmates at his Alma Mater, A.C.College, Guntur, N.T.Rama Rao and Kongara Jaggaiah became popular actors of Telugu Cinema. N.T.R became an all time super –hero. Seshendra’s father and maternal uncle forcibly brought him back from Madras, and with the good offices of native Member of Parliament put him in Government service as Deputy Panchayat Officer. In due course of time, on deputation, joined Municipal Administration Department and worked as Municipal Commissioner in all Major cities and towns of Andhra Pradesh. With the result he got wide exposure to conditions of social life of his times. He obtained personal acquaintance of Common Man’s life and his travails. This enriched his vision of life and literature a great deal.

With Seshendra Poetry and Poetics are Siamese Twins. He penned works of Literary Criticism both on classical and contemporary poetry. Sahitya Kaumudi (Telugu ) and his bi-lingual book “ the ARC of Blood : My Note Book “ illustrate this point. His Research work on Valmiki’s Ramayana , Shodasi : Secrets of The Ramayana , questions the very foundations of centuries old assumptions. Seshendra, based on scientific research citing from the original text of Valmiki and Vedas, reveals that The Ramayana is not just story of Rama told in enchanting poetry , But the Sage wrote the epic to spread Kundalini Yoga among the masses of his era. His observations that the concepts of Vishnu and Reincarnation were non –existent during Valmiki’s Epoch constitute a revolt against centuries old beliefs. Sita is the central character of The Ramayana and she is Kundalini Shakti / Adi Para Shakthi . During that era temples and prayers were nonexistent. This hits directly at the very foundation of Temple System.

His Kavisena Manifesto , is a noteworthy work on Modern Poetics. In this work, he compiles cogently definitions of poetry cutting across centuries and countries and writes scintillating commentary. This Manifesto of Modern Poetry is a sort of Wikipedia page of world poetry. Seshendra, finally concludes that poetry is emotions and feelings skilfully garbed in unusual diction, and poetry is a way of life.

Discerning scholars critics and academics are of intrinsic opinion that T.S.Eliot ,Archibald MacLeish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.

But this Scholar – poet of 20th century is an unsung and unwept genius of his times.

Prime Minister of India honoured Seshendra with Gold Medal in Sahitya Akademi ( India ) Golden Jubilee celebrations and Chief Minister of AP honoured him with Hansa Literary Award on the eve of UGADI , Telugu New Year Day in 2005 .

In one of his poems he says fragrance of stars is calling me. Seshendra left this world and vanished into fragrance of galaxies on May 30, 2007.

* * * * * *

GunturuSeshendraSarma: an extraordinary poet-scholar

One of the ironies in literature is that

he came to be known more as a critic than a poet

HYDERABAD: An era of scholastic excellence and poetic grandeur has come to an end in the passing away of GunturuSeshendraSarma, one of the foremost poets and critics in Telugu literature. His mastery over western literature and Indian AlankaraSastra' gave his works a stunning imagery, unparalleled in modern Indian works. One of the ironies in literature is that he came to be known more as a critic than a poet. The Central SahityaAkademi award was conferred on him for his work KaalaRekha' and not for his poetic excellence. The genius in him made him explore Kundalini Yoga' in his treatise on Ramayana in Shodasi' convincingly. His intellectual quest further made him probe NaishadhaKaavya' in the backdrop of LalitaSahasraNaamavali', SoundaryaLahari' and Kama Kala Vilasam' in SwarnaHamsa', Seshendra saw the entire universe as a storehouse of images and signs to which imagination was to make value-addition. Like Stephene Mallarme who was considered a prophet of symbolism in French literature, SeshendraSarma too believed that art alone would survive in the universe along with poetry. He believed that the main vocation of human beings was to be artists and poets. His Kavisena Manifesto' gave a new direction to modern criticism making it a landmark work in poetics. Telugus would rue the intellectual impoverishment they suffered in maintaining a distance' from him. Seshendra could have given us more, but we did not deserve it! The denial of the Jnanpeeth Award to him proves it

The Hindu

India's National Newspaper

Friday, Jun 01, 2007

1993 Suède Sweden Svezia

Escapade en train à Blåhammaren, dans le nord de la Suède, près de la frontier norvégienne.

Il est conseillé de savoir lire une carte et utiliser la boussole, car les sentiers ne sont pas bien marqués et on ne rencontre quasi personne ... le temps peut aussi changer brusquement : en qq minutes on passé de l'été à l'hiver avec de la neige (meme en plein mois de juillet).

Week-end close to the Norwegian border, in the north of Sweden, at Blåhammaren.

It is recommended to be able to read a map and use a compass because the paths are almost nonexistent ... the weather can also change within minutes going from Summer into Winter (with snow mid of July).

Camminata vicina al confine con la Norvegia, a Blåhammaren (2 giorni).

Saper leggere una mappa e utilizzare una bussola è d'obbligo perché i sentieri non si vedono bene. E non c'è molta gente da incontrare ! Subito il meteo può anche cambiare da estate a inverno con neve a metà luglio !

The Brothertons were a farm family who lived in a cabin on this site next to the La Fayette Road in 1863. They had warning the battle was coming, so most of the family--those who weren't fighting alongside the Confederates, at least--joined other area residents and took refuge in a ravine about a mile from this site.

This was probably a good idea, as one of the battle's most decisive events took place practically in their front yard. The Chickamauga battlefield is neatly bisected by the north-south running La Fayette Road. The armies had fought hard to the east of this road all through the day on September 19. That night, they lined up along it, with Confederate troops under Braxton Bragg to the east and Union troops commanded by William Rosencrans to the west. About halfway through the morning of the battle's second day, though, a typical communication snafu convinced Rosencrans he'd left a gap someplace he hadn't, and in the shuffling to close this nonexistent gap, he opened up a real one right here at the Brotherton Cabin. This coincidentally happened to be the very spot where 11,000 Confederate reinforcements fresh off the war's Eastern Theater and led by none other than Lt. General James Longstreet reached the battlefield.

This view is looking south toward the cabin, with the road just out of view to the left. Union troops were gathered in numbers too small to matter along the tree line just visible to the right of the image. Longstreet's Confederates swept across the road from the left and poured over the field, wrecking the cabin and forcing a third of the Union troops--including Rosencrans himself--to retreat from the battlefield.