Agnijaat
Chaitra 1425 Critique
By Troy David
Loy @ https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy
Agnijaat
Chaitra 1425, March 2019
Namaskar. This month’s opening
painting shows two lovers playing Holi, one of the festivals for
Chaitra! This appears to be Radha and Krishna at play during a moment
together, perhaps the very first Holi to be celebrated!
Indie Author
Speaks – Pocket Money or More 4
The Authoress discusses the
difficulties of affiliate accounts and posting links for online
retail sites! Especially with really big online retailers, keeping up
profit flow and remaining in the good graces of the business are a
must, or else!
There’s a
cartoon afterward of a rather lusty toad king who is a
little too fond of human girls in his harem! Perhaps his status as a
toad is not literal, but a metaphor for a human with the manners and
seeming of a toad, and morals matching that seeming.
Hinduism and
India – 3:
The Authoress notes something about
Hinduism, and it’s consolidation of power over Indian society that
seems true of any powerful institution, like religion, when it joins
forces with the state: any institution that has power is corruptible
and can cause great harm as a result of that. But when religion and
the state, each powerful institutions in their own rights, join as
one over the whole of society, the potential and risk of corruption
and resulting harm increases manyfold. It takes brave and intrepid
people to combat this, and in a modern democratic republic, the
mobilized political will of ordinary people to make change.
Era of
Classics:
Here, the Authoress notes the decline
of classic movies, and the sometimes successful, sometimes not,
attempt to recapture their feel in modern films.
Indian Raga
Now | Runa Laila
Here, we are introduced to a new
singer, at least new to many of uis outside India, and after a quick
web search I found a link to some of her music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FYeIp_VjnoI This is a fun listen!
There’s a strong echoic quality to the music, like a studio
broadcast from an old-time late-night radio station, but that in no
way detracts from the quality of her singing – it adds to it! The
link may have expired, or not, but a quick search for her stuff
online is relatively easy.
Spotlight On –
Ameen Sayani:
The Authoress gifts us with a luminary
of South Asian radio programming, from Radio Ceylon and All-India
Radio. His programs archived online will make valuable listening!
Sweet Memories
– Books:
Here we are treated to the love of
books, not just e-books but those you actually hold in your hands and
turn pages in. Books have a look, feel, and smell to them that
sometimes e-books don’t! I agree.
Ramnavami:
Here, we are told about the festival of
the Ramayana’s main hero, and the princely virtues he embodied. His
devotion to duty would be the envy of many!
Theme for
Chaitra: End:
Here, there are two images, a 17-word
verse, a 7x2 diamond verse, a story about a widow and a ouija board,
freeform verse, and a short essay, and it’s all about endings, of
stories and of lives. This points out that to everything there is an
end, as this Chaitra is the end of 1425!
So, that’ll be it for the conclusion
of BS 1425. Next month, it’ll be time to tackle Agnijaat for the
New Year, starting with the month of Boisakh 1426!
I’ll see you then, and in Soruggon:
Talotaa frang. Talotaa kas. Talotaa tranga suulaat!
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