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    Terror (A. Thiagarajan)

    Terror

    - A. Thiagarajan


    You do not have it
    anymore-
    doesn't matter
    you are in San Diego
    Singapore or
    Mylapore-
    really
    nolonger matters-

    long ago
    I used to chant
    as I sit at the steps
    coming out of temples-
    my dad and mom are
    Parvathy and Parameshwar
    all pious are my kinsmen
    and all the three worlds
    my swadesh….

    My dad was there
    as did my mom
    my aunties, uncles
    grandparents
    and many unnamed ilk..
    there was a discourse
    at the street corner
    a festival at the amman temple
    no surfing nor the net
    no google or yahoo search
    I simply got the names and stories
    and chants and vandana
    without calling them
    therapies and meditation
    healing and what not-

    the four streets around the temple
    car streets –
    north, east, south and west
    and the god coming
    as Utsava murthy
    right in front of our house
    for my dad's granny..

    I rolled on the street mud
    carrying it all the way
    despite all
    checks and controls
    to the shores abroad…

    now,
    California or Coimbatore
    you are only a visitor
    though you live…
    the car streets are stuffed with
    mud no more
    but sand embankments
    the temple festivals
    feel like high-security zones
    everyone is frisked
    you learn to look
    all around surreptiously..

    What you called nightmares
    are no longer the nights'
    to be awake today
    is to be suspicious

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    Very sad and true indeed! How did we let all good things slip through our fingers as the years roll by? Or what cruel destiny has snatched our happy times and traditions from us?
    Eager to watch the trends of the world & to nurture in the youth who carry the future world on their shoulders a right sense of values.

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