Tag: freedom
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A prayer at dusk
The palm trees leaned over the lagoon, Like long-haired sisters, sharing in a lonely secret, and we their wistful keepers, in the thickening dark, while empty canoes drifted dockside. We chanted your name against the dying light, four hands clasped, as quietness washed over the dimming land, like floating pearls thrumming on your eternal string, […]
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INDIA DIES NOT
We have an idea that we Indians can do something, and amongst the Indians we Bengalis may laugh at this idea; but I do not. My mission in life is to rouse a struggle in you. Whether you are an Advaitin, whether you are a qualified monist or dualist, it does not matter much. But […]
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Album: Paradox
1. Paradox 2. Awakened India 3. Flowers for the Departed 4. Wave in the Ganges 5. Going Home 6. Woodsong 7. Rhapsody in Satchidananda 8. Why Weepest Thou My Child?
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A Prayer for Dark Folk
Remember, O God, thru’out the world this night those who struggle for better government and freer institutions…Help us to realize that our brothers are not simply those of our own blood and nation, but far more are they those who think as we do and strive toward the same ideals. So tonight in Persia and […]
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Gandhiji on Vivekananda
“I have come here to pay my homage and respect to the revered memory of Swami Vivekananda, whose birthday is being celebrated today. I have gone through his works very thoroughly, and after having gone through them, the love that I had for my country became a thousand-fold. I ask you, young men, not to […]
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Satyagraha in Ghana
“Positive action has already achieved remarkable success in the liberation struggle of our continent and I feel sure that it can further save us from the perils of this atomic arrogance. If the direct action that was carried out by the international protest team were to be repeated on a mass scale, or simultaneously from […]
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The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy) – Effie Lee Newsome
‘Tis a noble gift to be brown all brown Like the strongest things Up this earth, Like the mountains grave and grand, Even like the very land, Even like the trunks of trees – Even oaks, to be like these! God builds his strength in bronze. To be brown like thrush and lark! Like the […]
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Poem: The Rosenbergs, June 1953 – W.E.B Du Bois
From floods of wrath, avenging God, Pour down the curse on us the murderers, who crucify the Jews! Hammer home the nails, thick through our skulls; Crush down the thorns; Rain red the bloody sweat, Thick and heavy, warm and wet. We are the killers, hurling mud! We the witch hunters, drinking blood! To us […]
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