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Rain haiki3/20/2023 He learnt mountaineering as a young child from his father, before it became a professional course in colleges, he proudly claims. The owner is a middle-aged man who was brought up in these hills. We’re staying in a small cottage, up somewhere hidden amongst the trees. We hear her through the day and through the night. The Ganga - called the Bhagirathi at Uttarkashi - flows down the Himalayan range. Each poem tells a story, if only you care to peep and stay with the spaces within the words, for a while. I’ve just picked out a few poems, in reference to this season, from my poems spanning haiku, tanka and haibun. In other words, like Saint poet Kabir has rightly expressed in a spiritual song, that, his body is only a musical instrument that transmits the timeless cosmic resonance. The cavities in the body - like the oral cavity and the sinus cavities – including the spaces from the toes to the brain, all act as resonators or amplifiers for the ‘sound’ to vibrate and reverberate, which in Sanskrit is called as Anu-Naad. According to ancient texts, an instrument (such as the voice) only resonates the cosmic sound, and thus all that the body does is to extricate the sound from the cosmos and faithfully reproduce it, when a person sings or talks. Naad or sound, as stated in the Hindu ancient texts is a primordial sound existing in the cosmos, referred to metaphorically as AUM. So in a poem comprising of just six or seven words, resonance becomes the key word!Īnu-naad is a Sanskrit word for resonance. In film jargon we could refer to it as “a shot” frozen in time. Haiku along with its genres like tanka and haibun are nothing but word paintings. Gabi Greve (A German who lives in Japan) had by that time started to collect the season words of the world and I volunteered to help out in finding Indian “ kigo words” (which means season words in Japanese) and suggested that we begin with India’s six seasons. When I entered the haiku world, in mid 2005, I realised that Indians do respect the classical traditions connecting to seasons and all our art forms adhere to this six season classification, making Varsha Ritu one of the most important seasons. In Japanese haikai traditions, along with the four regular seasons of Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring, we see “New Year” as an additional fifth seasonal reference. Haiku being rooted in seasons and nature, it is not surprising at all that we try to capture the magic of this monsoon season in our little poems, bringing out the various rasas. Rains have always caught our fancy and our imagination. and imagine the king of seasons - Varsha Ritu’s play in all these images! To this, add every artiste’s search for space. the super fast taans cascading down in sheer vigour and vitality? Who can resist the charm of the rain scene in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, or Kumar Gandharva’s exposition of rag Miyan-ki-Malhar in the composition “ bol re papihara”.
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