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Kalahandi - The Untold Story
Twenty-three delightful real life stories and fifteen heart touching poems describe in graphic details the economic and sexual exploitation of poor tribal people of Kalahandi by scheming moneylenders, businessmen, local contractors, politicians and indifferent bureaucrats. The stories have been originally written in English, while the poems have been translated from the original Odia. For his poem collection on Kalahandi the author had won Sahitya Akademi's Golden Jubilee prize for poetry in 2007. Once known as the “rice bowl” of Odisha, Kalahandi became infamous for large scale starvation deaths in the 1980s. The agrarian economy of Kalahandi was devastated following a 20 year long fami...
I, She and the Sea
Three real life love stories and forty nine delectable romantic poems centering around three lovely women whom the poet met after a series of strange visions and mysterious phone calls at midnight. Was any of these women the poet’s wife in his previous life? These fascinating stories of magic and coincidence give compelling reasons to make one believe in a definite past life connection. This volume includes engaging and compelling reads such as “A Woman’s Scent”, “Kissing a Woman”, “Sex Museum”, “After the Act”, “Anklets of Fire”, “Samadhi”, “Butterflies and Bees”, “Radha’s Soliliquy” and “Rubber Love”.
I Am Your Baby, Mother
Antony Theodore’s most famous poem is “I Am Your Baby, Mum”. It has been translated into more than 20 languages. This deceptively simple yet powerful poem outwardly advocates against abortion of foetuses. This is as per Antony’s professed Catholic Christian faith. However it also has much deeper spiritual meaning. Love for God grows like a fertilised seed in the sanctuary of devotion in the heart of the sincere seeker. Abandonment of spiritual quest before full God realisation is akin to abortion of one’s own baby. Therefore abortion is nothing but abandonment of God. This book contains moving poems on the loving relationship between a mother and her baby. These can also be interpr...
Songs of Sadness
The book explores the depths of human sorrow in its various shades and layers from a lonely woman’s perspective. Failure in relationships, human betrayal, death of loved ones, suffering from injustice and bitter loneliness of old age etc are beautifully depicted through haunting imagery in these poems. For the poet boundless joy is the default nature of human beings. Sadness is just a manifestation of one’s forgetfulness of one’s true eternal divine nature. Human beings forget their inner divinity due to attachment to the temporary external world. However physical and mental suffering prepares the human heart for ultimate God communion. Underneath the terrible frustration of mundane hu...
Songs of Lust and Love
The book explores intimacy of human love as expressed through sexual attraction between man and woman. The poems explore the breath-taking depths of erotic intimacy through the five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.
For the poet marriage is the sacred union of two souls on the path of God realisation. Romantic attraction prepares the human heart for ultimate God communion. The Creator has split Himself into Man and Woman for cosmic play. By seeing one's mirror image in one another, a couple in love can retrace their path back to the divine origin. Hence sexual intimacy should be seen as a worship of God, and erotic art as a celebration of spiritual life.
Underneath the sexual imagery there is an intense yearning for God realisation. The poems provide a penetrative new interpretation of the universal truths expounded in the scriptures of all world religions – e.g. Veda, Bible, Gita and Quran.
Lalitha Iyer is a pseudonym of Hemangi Sharma, the mystic poet-scholar from Kashmir. The book has been edited by Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan, who has also written its foreword and introduction.
Psalms of Love
Psalms constitute the largest book of the Holy Bible. Originally composed as uplifting soulful prayers set to melodious instrumental music, psalms now serve more as daily spiritual guidance for righteous conduct. Antony Theodore’s latest book contains two hundred of his select poems based on holy Christian teachings contained in the Book of Psalms. The poems also make several references to Vedas, Upanishad, Gita, Quran and other ancient scriptures of world religions. The poems are arranged in eight interwoven parts covering Songs of the Wild, Song of the Mystic, Laments of Heart, Paeans of Love, Soul’s Songs, Prayer Talks, Songs of Silence and Hymns of God. The topics range from conjugal...
Kalahandi - The Untold Story
Once known as the "rice bowl" of India, Kalahandi became infamous for large scale starvation deaths in the 1980s. The agrarian economy of Kalahandi was devastated following a 20 year famine starting in 1965. This book shows that although the famine was a natural calamity, the starvation deaths were an avoidable manmade disaster. The real life stories and poems in this book describe in graphic details the economic and sexual exploitation of poor tribals of Kalahandi by scheming moneylenders, businessmen, local contractors, politicians and indifferent bureaucrats.Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan won the Indian Academy of Letters Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature Golden Jubilee Prize in 2007 for his poem collection "Kalahandi". His other works include "I, She and the Sea", "Wind in the Afternoon", "Dance of Shiva" and "The Buddha Smiled" which won prize at All India Poetry Competition.
Jesus Christ in Love
Antony Theodore has written thousands of wonderful poems on spirituality and love. This book contains two hundred of his select poems on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. The poems make several references to the Veda, Upanishad, Gita and other scriptures also. The poems are arranged in seven parts covering Miracle of Birth, Word of God, Mystery of Love, Voyage of Life, Temptation of Flesh, Final Cross and The After Life. Many of the poems dwell on the intimacy of human love as expressed through sexual attraction between man and woman. For the poet marriage is the sacred union of two souls on the path of God realisation. The covenant of marriage is a promise before God for lifelong devot...
Wind in the Afternoon
A woman's sanitary napkin floats away to the poet's balcony on a windy afternoon, transporting him into a profound spiritual experience. The resulting poem probes deep into the layers of human mind, including the subconscious and unconscious creative process. The thirty six poems in this volume include such exciting and thought provoking pieces like "A Woman's Scent", "Two Women", "Sex Museum, Amsterdam", "Sex University, Netherlands", "An Act of Love", "Skeleton of Neruda", "Dance of Shiva", "Buddha Smiled", "Crossing Niagara on Tight Ropes", "Inter-Galactic Space Travel", "Suryanelli Girl" and "Bitty Mohanty's Denial" etc. The subject matter of the poems range from love, sex, adventure, sports, crime, rape, computers, cyber fraud, Nobel Laureates, poverty, human rights, religion, spirituality and human relationship. Each poem has a distinct theme and unique style.The wide ranging topics and poetic styles employed in this volume will be a definite treat for the avid connoisseur of contemporary experimental poetry.
I, She and the Sea
Three real life love stories and fifty nine delectable romantic poems centering around three lovely women whom the author met after a series of strange visions and mysterious phone calls at midnight.Was any of these women the author’s wife in his previous life? These fascinating stories of magic and coincidence give compelling reasons to make one believe in a definite past life connection. This volume includes engaging and compelling reads such as “A Woman’s Scent”, “Two Women”, "Twenty Years After", "Love Before First Sight", “Sex Museum”, “After the Act”, “Anklets of Fire”, “Samadhi”, “Butterflies and Bees”, “Radha’s Soliliquy” and “Rubber Love”.
