Agnijaat Book 6, Boisakh 1425
Critique By Troy David Loy @https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy
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Theme for Boisakh fresh/beginning: This theme deals with letting the past go, with some interesting verse, and images featuring the embrace of the new, and making space in one’s life for the future. Sometimes the inner voice has advice of relinquishing a stuck situation, and what to give up!
Theme for Jyeshtha: inspiration: This theme deals with the capriciousness of the personal muse, such sources of illumination in a more metaphorical sense as the Moon and other sources of idea generation. Creativity is surely not something to teach with a template, but there are ways to harness it when needed that can be nurtured with practice! Loss can be a trigger for ideation, as can once’s surroundings.
Theme for Ashar: Summer Here, we take a look at the hoped-for pleasures, but usually the misery, of the hot season, when it’s a really good thing to live near a beach, and not a city! Sometimes the sun can seem like a super villain, deliberately causing suffering, and often death by heatstroke, with no hero in sight to stop him! Having to deal with loud dogs and loud vehicle horns in a crowded city is no help in this!
Theme for Shraban: Monsoon: Bengal’s rainy season can be a joy, to hear the authoress relate it! This time of year the changing of the seasons, seems timeless even in a world with a climate changing for the worse! The story for this theme has a lovely ending, which I very much enjoyed! The season has its joys, and living in a locale where wise construction teams have worked is a good thing when the streets are drenched!
Theme for Bhadra: Living vs Beathing: There is value in living, or as I would put it, Being, over just Doing to get along and survive. Particularly touching is part Five, with a story about young Minu and Indrani, on the value of being over merely going through life by doing. Always care for those you love when they may unexpectedly not be here to show you love them! A good Stoic principle. It’s a good Stoic principle to mix Doing with Being, and to be your own course-corrector in life, not negative types or authoritarians
as the Authoress notes.
Theme for Ashwin: Durgapuja: here, the Authoress relates in word and images, the joys of the festival, in sharing the boons that come thus, and the joys of past occasions, with a scary story in which a traveller at night sees something horrible in the darkness, and lives to tell the tale! I liked this one a lot! there’s loss that comes with time, on the faded glamour of past celebrations, and what remains of them. The Authoress muses on both
past and perhaps future glories, and in moving beyond the worst in her life to something more joyous, by reaching further than others.
Theme for Kartik: Kalipuja: From Hindu Halloween, to Dipawali, when the stars in the sky are rivaled in homes all over India, to a story of a young girl erring by climbing the local landlord’s pujadalan, the Authoress reveals her ambition to buy her own place to live without the travails of city life. I think that an ancient fort would be a cool place to live, as long as no pesky archaeologists come snooping around!
Theme for Agrahayan: Women: this time, the Authoress celebrates the good, and excoriates the not-so-good in other women, from liberation and justice, to letting ladies just be themselves, or else, to a story on the mistakes and regret of a failed engagement, of marriage to another, of the beauty of those you want and those you once wanted, and why choosing a partner on mere physical beauty is not such a good idea as it may first seem!
Theme for Poush: Spiritualism: on those who seek union with the divine, here are some images, verse, and both a fiction piece and story from the Authoress’ own life, of the journey to find the God within.
Theme for Magh: Hope: Hope can be fragile, though also source of strength in times of desperation. Here, the Authoress notes how elusive it can be, and how beautiful it can be to behold.
Theme for Falgun: Love, Spring, Youth: Spring is the season of life, when both love and flowers bloom. As the end of winter, when the rivers thaw, it can also be a season when love gets snuffed in the darkness of the soul, a sometimes corrupt soul how denies to others with it itself cannot know. Love, faith, hope and dreams; the Authoress relates her perspective on these four things, all worth having to whatever degree possible, in my view as well, especially faith in humanity, in oneself, and in the dreams of humanity to reach for the stars one day.
Theme for Chaitra: Final Moments: Is this life all there is, or is there something after? There is something eternal in humanity’s search for eternity. Death can be scary for most, and here the Authoress relates some of that uncertainty in verse, story, and image. She admonishes to live this life to the fullest, for there just may not be another after. No one knows. Enjoy it, and live it on your own terms, which I think good advice indeed!
Critique By Troy David Loy @https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy
https://shoptly.com/i/pvo
Theme for Boisakh fresh/beginning: This theme deals with letting the past go, with some interesting verse, and images featuring the embrace of the new, and making space in one’s life for the future. Sometimes the inner voice has advice of relinquishing a stuck situation, and what to give up!
Theme for Jyeshtha: inspiration: This theme deals with the capriciousness of the personal muse, such sources of illumination in a more metaphorical sense as the Moon and other sources of idea generation. Creativity is surely not something to teach with a template, but there are ways to harness it when needed that can be nurtured with practice! Loss can be a trigger for ideation, as can once’s surroundings.
Theme for Ashar: Summer Here, we take a look at the hoped-for pleasures, but usually the misery, of the hot season, when it’s a really good thing to live near a beach, and not a city! Sometimes the sun can seem like a super villain, deliberately causing suffering, and often death by heatstroke, with no hero in sight to stop him! Having to deal with loud dogs and loud vehicle horns in a crowded city is no help in this!
Theme for Shraban: Monsoon: Bengal’s rainy season can be a joy, to hear the authoress relate it! This time of year the changing of the seasons, seems timeless even in a world with a climate changing for the worse! The story for this theme has a lovely ending, which I very much enjoyed! The season has its joys, and living in a locale where wise construction teams have worked is a good thing when the streets are drenched!
Theme for Bhadra: Living vs Beathing: There is value in living, or as I would put it, Being, over just Doing to get along and survive. Particularly touching is part Five, with a story about young Minu and Indrani, on the value of being over merely going through life by doing. Always care for those you love when they may unexpectedly not be here to show you love them! A good Stoic principle. It’s a good Stoic principle to mix Doing with Being, and to be your own course-corrector in life, not negative types or authoritarians
as the Authoress notes.
Theme for Ashwin: Durgapuja: here, the Authoress relates in word and images, the joys of the festival, in sharing the boons that come thus, and the joys of past occasions, with a scary story in which a traveller at night sees something horrible in the darkness, and lives to tell the tale! I liked this one a lot! there’s loss that comes with time, on the faded glamour of past celebrations, and what remains of them. The Authoress muses on both
past and perhaps future glories, and in moving beyond the worst in her life to something more joyous, by reaching further than others.
Theme for Kartik: Kalipuja: From Hindu Halloween, to Dipawali, when the stars in the sky are rivaled in homes all over India, to a story of a young girl erring by climbing the local landlord’s pujadalan, the Authoress reveals her ambition to buy her own place to live without the travails of city life. I think that an ancient fort would be a cool place to live, as long as no pesky archaeologists come snooping around!
Theme for Agrahayan: Women: this time, the Authoress celebrates the good, and excoriates the not-so-good in other women, from liberation and justice, to letting ladies just be themselves, or else, to a story on the mistakes and regret of a failed engagement, of marriage to another, of the beauty of those you want and those you once wanted, and why choosing a partner on mere physical beauty is not such a good idea as it may first seem!
Theme for Poush: Spiritualism: on those who seek union with the divine, here are some images, verse, and both a fiction piece and story from the Authoress’ own life, of the journey to find the God within.
Theme for Magh: Hope: Hope can be fragile, though also source of strength in times of desperation. Here, the Authoress notes how elusive it can be, and how beautiful it can be to behold.
Theme for Falgun: Love, Spring, Youth: Spring is the season of life, when both love and flowers bloom. As the end of winter, when the rivers thaw, it can also be a season when love gets snuffed in the darkness of the soul, a sometimes corrupt soul how denies to others with it itself cannot know. Love, faith, hope and dreams; the Authoress relates her perspective on these four things, all worth having to whatever degree possible, in my view as well, especially faith in humanity, in oneself, and in the dreams of humanity to reach for the stars one day.
Theme for Chaitra: Final Moments: Is this life all there is, or is there something after? There is something eternal in humanity’s search for eternity. Death can be scary for most, and here the Authoress relates some of that uncertainty in verse, story, and image. She admonishes to live this life to the fullest, for there just may not be another after. No one knows. Enjoy it, and live it on your own terms, which I think good advice indeed!
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