"THE RABBLE-ROUSER"

"THE RABBLE-ROUSER"

 
A DECAYING DOMAIN !!!!
BULKY LIES UNDER THE THRONE ....
LEWDNESS ON THE ACCRETION !!!
LED BY A BANDIT, A RABBLE-ROUSER....
  HOLED BY A MORON.., THE SLAYER
A MAN WHO LYNCHED THE BLOSSOM
ROBED THE SMILE FROM THE SPRING !!!
BRANCHED THE FOLKS ON THE FOOT OF RELIGION !!!!
NOW IS ON THE ANTE OF EMINENT BERTH !!!
WHERE HE COULD DEVOURED US ALL ....
(Mark D' World)

Sajin utters …..

    Sajin utters …..

Hi comrades …

I am Sajin Shahul

Born like you

Breed like you !!!

In the world…

With cheer and remorse

Joys trifling

Sorrows yawning !!!

Hilarity hampered

Misery unfettered !!!

Elation mistress of elites …

Inhibited beneath their paws

Goblins with power

Sinking the seas of desire

The dreams of folks !!!

The empty pelvis…

Ragged twills !!!

The homeless nights…

And wrecked wishes !!!

Girdling my ambience……

Wars, strife and brawls !!!

Mourning, wailing and aching…

Religion opium in the veins…

Veiled our eyes !!!

BUT ……………..

I stand and snubbed all !

With valor to liberate world

For love of freedom

and the appetite of escape

from fascism and hate !!!

Mounted myself against oppression

The plutocrats and pontiffs

The venders of capital and morality !!!

Embossed my voice for the gains of all

To heel smile on the faces of all

The cry waxed into a reason

the call for revolution. 

We need revolutions

in hearts and minds of hordes

In the body and souls of broods

We need a revolution all over

In the sternness and wetness

In the womb of our mother earth

With abyssal respect and devotion

With love and veneration

This is the chore of all comrades

To turn thorns into flowers

And the time is to appear

when the earth will shower

the enduring, abiding

immortal and hopeful future.

The Revolution !!!

Against the Bulwarks of annihilation.

And …

"In the fight of revolution

The cause of freedom 

Against fascism…..

I attained salvation !!!

The desire of every comrade

Martyrdom for Revolution !!!

Long live Revolution”

Oh comrades ….

My meager endeavor …

My incomplete desire !!!

Is now on your shoulder

For its realization …

Long live revolution 

Long live revolution !!!

(Majid Marazi)

MOON BEHIND THE VEIL

MOON BEHIND THE VEIL  

Ocean kissed the Heaven
on Horizon.....
the darkness walled the Sun
Stars alighted from their mansion
but !!!!
the moon buried under veil !!!!
murk of conceit and pride ...
frost and apartheid !!!
and ...
the earth lotus away
wailing for lambent....
elegance ravaged
grandeur hewed !!!
swamping beneath
eclipse and effete !!!

but......
the Sun will fountain
with new adulation
reverie and veneration...
waif the prevarication....

oh you moon
fervid of your light
beguiled by self...
with no lenity !!!
still is revered by me .....
(Mark d World)

"ENLIGHTENMENT"

"ENLIGHTENMENT"

The world I am pervading
taunts me with her surly eyes
my self was abducted...
and implanted in the Murphy Eden !!
where my fate "karma"
laden with shallow conscience
and porcine gains ....
quelled my essence
and skewed into manikin...

where ears render deaf
to the sighs of conscience
A desolate heaven
with no life but roving shadows !!!
piled under flagrancy and witchery...

A "ray of light" brushes my heart
Drilled my Soul and seity
bursted fom a cramped hole
Hermetic oriel of my sanity ...

I inhaled enlightenment ....
the insight of Gauthama
on the sear ait amid a vast sea
the sea of hauteur and insolence
pride and arrogance ....
and not under the Bodhi tree !!


I abjured my body
my skin and cadaver ..
and dissolved my self
with the light !!!
the light of rectitude
comity and Amour....
(Mark D' World

A Lone Bird

A Lone bird..

Glommed in the woods
of fire and smoke ...
alone with no chum
but a desire to live !!!

forged a nest of his own
with cinders and ash ...
on the flaming branchs
of a pine tree !!!!
singing and perching
yearning for the spring
the roses and jasmine !!!

but; he knows...
the world veiling abaft smoke
burning deeper than the woods
venomous and belligerent
aberrant and philistine ...
the world of Humans !!!!

on a dime..
he celebrated his solitude
like the Sage in the caveren
a butterfly in the garden !!!

the smoke no more numbed him
he befriends with the fire !!
intoning the aria..
the songs of sustenance...
(Mark D' World)

A snow flake …

Cumbrous but light

Prismatic but white !!!

Slipping from heavens

To quench the soil ..

Abate her searing soul !!!

Looming as a cotton

Soft and feathery

A white jasmine

In the garden !!!

My scorching frame

Palate and reasoning

Crammed with lechery

And pruriency !!!!

Yawed into icicles

Hanging on the thatched roofs

Of a wooden hut !!!!

Towering, spicate and

Diaphanous ……

The arrows of glass !!!

She a Snow Flake…..

Cumbrous but light

Prismatic but white !!!

(Majid Marazi)

Burzahom and Origin of Kashmiris

There are many theories about the origin of Kashmiris. It is one of the most mysterious and exciting topics. Some say we are descendants of Aryans who came from Central Asia. There is a fantastic theory which says that we may be part of the lost tribes of Israelites who came here through Iran and Afghanistan. However, one can say with certainty that we are not in any way very close to other inhabitants of the sub-continent especially those living in our southern neighbourhood. Physically we are of a fine stock, well built and tall. We have sharp and regular features. Generally people are lively and intelligent. Full of fun and fond of amusement. The beauty of our women has been well known and praised by writers and poets for a long time. We do look like an ancient race with complexions varying from very fair to ruddy and sometimes even blond. In Europe as well as in many other countries we are mistaken for Turks or Iranians or Greeks and in some cases as Spanish or Italians. Raj Tarangni describes original inhabitants of the valley as Pisacas and Nagas who used to create trouble for Brahmans. Kashmiri Brahmans popularly called Pandits form a distinct class of their own and can be considered to be the purest specimen of the ancient Aryan settlers in the valley. However, it is not fully established where from they came and what route they came by. Rajtarangni also mentions that the valley was once a big lake (Sati Sar) which was drained by Kashyapa after killing the Demon Jalodbhava who was guarding its outlet in Baramulla. Well, the Geological formation of Karewas, layers of sedimentary clay deposits, found every where in the valley, does confirm the existence of a lake. However, the exact origin of the people of Kashmir is not fully established and could be an interesting subject for research. It is not known whether any anthropological or any DNA study of Kashmiris has ever been attempted? There is only one definite and irrefutable scientific evidence about the beginning of human civilisation in Kashmir and that is the Neolithic (New Stone Age) dwelling sites in many parts of the valley out of which Burzahom site is the most studied and well known in the scientific community. But the significance of the site is not so much known among the people at large. Burzahom Neolithic Site is on a Karewa in the neighbourhood of Shalimar-Telbal road. It has a beautiful location. On one side in the distance is the Dal lake while in the backdrop is Mahadev peak. The site is famous because it was the first such site discovered in Kashmir. It has dwelling pits, burial pits and some megaliths. The Neolithic (or the New Stone Age) Period of this site dates back to around 3,000 BC. In a way the place represents the site as well as the period where from the first inhabitants of our beautiful valley came. They could be termed the original Kashmiris who started inhabiting this valley like their counter parts in many other areas of the world. The author visited the site first in 1969 when it had been freshly excavated. The then Chief Minister late G.M.Sadiq had informed me about the existence and discovery of this and other sites. He had been taking personal interest in its excavation and was desirous of having a museum on the site itself to house the various implements discovered there. In an informal chat he mentioned to me that he was very much apprehensive that everything discovered here would be taken to the National Museum in Delhi and we would be left with pits only! Because of this fear he had sanctioned construction of a Museum on the site itself. On visiting the site again a few years after his death his words proved prophetic. There was nothing at the site except some pits full of rain water and half complete concrete pillars erected to provide a roof over these. Everything had been taken to Delhi! Subsequently a number of other sites were discovered and excavated. The Burzahom site was excavated from 1961 to 1968. Many implements of the Neolithic period dating back to 3,000 BC were discovered in this site. It also yielded ten human skeletons. During the Neolithic Age man started using sharpened stone tools with smooth surfaces which was achieved by grinding. They started relying more and more on getting their food by growing crops and domesticating animals. They also began making pottery. A few pieces of pottery were also recovered from this site. Burzhom in Kashmiri means home of birch. It seems that there were a lot of birch trees in this area during that period. This has been confirmed by pieces of burnt birch recovered from here. From this site a stone slab with a hunting scene was also recovered. The other places where these sites were discovered are Begagund, Gofkral, Hariparigom, Olchibag, Pampur, Panzgom, Sombur, Waztal and Brah. Details of the excavation with illustrations can be seen on the website of Discover India where Mr.Upinder Singh has written a detailed article which has been illustrated by Gautam Trivedi. The article can be accessed at :(http://www.4to40.com/Discoverindia/places/default.asp?article=Discoverindia_places_index). As already mentioned the site also yielded ten human skeletons. Out of these five are of adult males, three are of adult females, one is of a juvenile and one of a child. These skeletons were examined in detail by anthropologists. One of the skeletons is of a female of 26 to 30 years which has a trepanated or trephined skull. The trepanated skull was first noticed by Allchin and Allchin but was later studied in detail by Roy Chowdhury and Basu and Pal. Trepanation is an ancient surgical practice of drilling or cutting holes through the skull vault of a living or recently deceased person for medical purposes or otherwise. This practice was widely prevalent in many ancient societies of Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Dr. Anek R.Sankhyan and George Weber have written a detailed article on the topic which is available at: http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/sankhyan/burzhom.htm. This clearly establishes that even this ancient Stone Age community of Kashmiris was quite advanced in scientific knowledge of those days and its practice. They probably used surgical instruments made of bronze and the procedure may have been undertaken by a surgeon from Indus Valley where it was more prevalent. Subsequently the Neolithic Dwellers of Kashmir got mixed with a number of waves of Aryans, Scythians, and probably Israelites to evolve into present day Kashmiris. The external rule of Mughals, Afghans, Sikhs, and Dogras has had its own influence upon the lives of local people. However, due to our resilience and adaptability we have absorbed all strains and streams and have still stayed as Kashmiris. In many other places in the world where different cultures have come together one finds specific localities or areas belonging to these varied ethnic groups such as China Town, Greek or Latin quarter etc. However, in Kashmir we do not have any such isolated quarter but we have assimilated all cultures and ethnic groups which came here and have maintained our age old traditions and customs. This extraordinary quality of the Kashmiri people to face all inroads and external pressures from different quarters and retain the centuries old identity in the most difficult and trying conditions distinguishes us as a truly ancient race. A real scientific study involving anthropological measurements and DNA testing about the true origin of Kashmiri people would be a challenging but a fascinating project. Will someone from the University of Kashmir be willing to take it up