Poems

The day has just begun its triumphant march:Imperial, rough-shod, crusading.Its ambitions touch a pinnacle, its mood heroic.Its commonplace beginning an unintended deception.In a deft sleight of hand it quantum jumps…

Often in the heat of living I revisit the old question: Who am I? Through the beautiful and the ugly of life, Through the joyful and the painful of life,…

It was only a month ago that I buried Jessie, She was only seventeen and wanted to go all the way. I was told I was born in a hill…

We quiver long in the vortex of our pains, Till pain appears to be the inseparable and meaningful part of life. Pain is not the catharsis of our sins, But…

Infinity is a need To fill the structures in mind built for it, Apparently contradicting our finite tissues. Infinity unmasks the eternal corner of our soul. Infinity beckons us to…

It was some six weeks ago that I met you accidentally at my cousin’s place –Twenty-four years since I glimpsed your face –The face that seems to have a new…

Above Picture: Me, at about the age of two, with my mother, Aruna Kaul Karihaloo, in Srinagar, Kashmir.   I woke up on my birthday to find out when the…

As far as we can look back in the recorded history of Kashmir,We see a river of Hindus flowing through thousands of years;Even beyond the recorded history they are thought…

In the end comes the end of a man, Who has been a ceaseless engine of action, Whose brow has envisioned a billion visions, Whose mind has reasoned a billion…

God is in the compassion for the lost child, In the equality of all men, In the dancing contour of a wave, Steadfastness in holding to principles, In the pursuit…