Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
They are the sentinels that stand alone
to watch everything
the right and the wrong
the holy and the mean
the flame that ends in ashes
with the stark impartiality of a sterile stone.
Good ones who drive within
the speed-limit and wear a thin
smile on their lips lest they betray
the storm and the desolation
they feel in their bones.
And the bad with its beautiful expanse
ofthe blood-red and the most intense,
driven byemotions to the very edge
till Time leads them over the ledge
down into the pit of past tense.
Helpfully shedding light wherever they could
on things alive or dead,
never minding the bad or good
–they change with the weather, it’s said�
the sentinels are eyes of god
who sees and unsees in the folds
of the same second, and then withholds.
No wonder the stars burst,
participation is a real thirst.
The day the sentinels come down
the earth in the seven seas will drown.
–DR R. RABINDRANATH MENON