Lorca, Resurrected With A Poor Translation

''The clock says “When will it be morning?”
The sun says “Noon hurt me.”
The river cries with its mouthful of mud
And the sea moves every way without moving.''

Above requiem by Ted Hughes says how much Lorca was and still is a major poet of the poets!

Federico Garcia Lorca was an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European movements, such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism into Spanish literature.Lorca was executed at 38 by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.His body has never been found.

The Partition Museum

Installation In Amritsar Partition Museum

Novelist, journalist Kishwar Desai, the driving force behind the first  museum wholly dedicated to the partition of India, told Hindustan Times “In the 50th year of Independence and Partition, I started working on Manto’s stories for television. It was then that I thought there should be a museum to Partition and it has taken me two decades to translate this dream into reality,”.

Naga: The Native Indian Cobra That Beaten Both Krshna And Buddha

In Bengal you would find the ancient serpent goddess Manasha, who was supposed to be a Kobra or a Nagin!Manasha was there even before the Vedic people came to India.Would The following picture where Vedic Godking Krshna dancing on the snake Kalya's head mean the subjuagation of pre-vedic deities!

Nāga (Sanskrit: नाग, IAST: nāgá, Burmese: နဂါး, ngar, Indonesian: naga, Javanese: någå, Khmer: នាគ neak, Chinese: 那伽) is the Sanskrit and Pāli word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very great snake—specifically the King Cobra, found in Hinduism and Buddhism.