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Abhay K.

9 months

Delighted to reveal the cover of my #translation of the first #Magahi novel ‘ #FoolBahadur ’ by Jayanath Pati, published by @PenguinIndia as a Modern Classic. The book is available for preorder at @biharfoundation @chinkis @ShamikaRavi @BajpayeeManoj

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Abhay K.

@theabhayk

6 years

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”—James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987) #BOTD

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"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book" —Cicero, 43 BCE

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"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book" —Cicero, 43 BCE

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“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” —Chinua Achebe

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3 years

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."—Borges

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3 years

“I would like to write a novel about silence. The things people don’t say.”—Virginia Woolf

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8 months

Delighted to sign and present a copy of my poem of 150 stanzas, #Monsoon published by @sahityaakademi to @achyuta_samanta ji, Hon’ble MP Lok Sabha and founder of @KIITUniversity and @kissfoundation .

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6 years

“When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.”—John Lennon

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2 years

As I turn 43 today, I feel truly grateful for all the love and affection I have received from all of you. Here’s a poem— When my breath becomes air don’t despair, scatter my ashes somewhere on Earth, don’t care to build a shrine, read my poems, I live in them,they’re my home.

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4 years

“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.” —Rabindranath Tagore

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3 years

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”—James Baldwin, writer

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5 years

“I have decided to stick to love ... Hate is too great a burden to bear.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

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4 years

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”— Borges

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3 years

"You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.” — Susan sontag

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3 years

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people.”— James Baldwin

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2 years

“Everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.” -Franz Kafka

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3 years

"Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want." — Doris Lessing

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4 years

“Home is not where you were born, home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”—Naguib Mahfouz, writer, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1911-2006) #BOTD

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2 years

“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.” —Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861- 7 August 1941) #BOTD

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6 years

“Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.”—Gore Vidal, writer (3 Oct 1925-2012) #BOTD

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4 years

"You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.” — Susan sontag

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6 years

“You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.”—Billie Holiday, jazz singer and songwriter (7 Apr 1915-1959)

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3 years

“The Planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.”—Dalai Lama

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4 years

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."—Borges

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3 years

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” — Confucius

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3 years

चरैवेति (charaiverti) : keep going…don’t give up…

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3 years

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”—James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987) #BOTD

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4 years

“If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.”— Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988) #BOTD

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5 years

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.”—Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957)

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3 years

“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.” ~ Desmond Tutu

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2 years

“The description of the fast-disappearing species and the interweaving of the past and present…local festivals, architecture and flavours makes this poem an important addition to the field of #ecopoetry .”- @Jona_writes reviews #Monsoon in @indianexpress

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3 years

लोग टूट जाते हैं एक घर बनाने में। तुम तरस नहीं खाते बस्तियाँ जलाने में ॥ —बशीर बद्र

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2 years

My translation of #Kalidasa ’s Ritusamhara “The Six Seasons” published by @BloomsburyIndia has been nominated for #PVLFAuthorExcellenceAwards2023 under the #BestPoetry category. Please cast your vote for #Ritusamhara and share as widely as possible.

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6 months

Happy #IndianCivilServiceDay ! Take a look at rich legacy of writings by 150 Indian diplomats which covers a variety of genres ranging from novels to poetry, scholarly books to memoirs, translations to travelogues among others.

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6 years

“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.” —John F. Kennedy

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6 years

“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”—Kofi Annan (8 April 1938–18 August 2018) RIP #KofiAnnan

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1 year

As #Chandrayaan 3 is approaching landing on the #Moon , here is a #MoonAnthem to celebrate the occasion. It has been shng by Kavita Krishnamurti, music has been composed by Dr. L. Subramaniam.

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2 years

Delighted to share that the much awaited ‘The Book of #Bihari Literature’ published by @HarperCollinsIN is available now for pre-order. #Bihar #Literature @amitavakumar @BajpayeeManoj @rajkamaljha @SankarshanT @kan_writersside @chweepster @MitraUdayan

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3 years

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”― Swami Vivekanand

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6 years

“I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all these moods, I see myself.” ~ Martin Buxbaum

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3 years

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”— Borges

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“Fear does not prevent death. Fear prevents life.”—Naguib Mahfouz, writer, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1911-2006) #BOTD

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3 months

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky & Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people.”—James Baldwin (2 Aug 1924-1987)

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5 years

Faiz Ahmad Faiz #Urdu

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7 years

“Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be!”- Hafez

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3 years

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”— Ursla Le Guin (21 Oct 1929- 22 Jan 2018) #BOTD

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4 years

“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing oneself.”—Leo Tolstoy

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5 years

@a_sandhan @TIinExile @TIinExile is right!!! This is a quote from The Arsonist, a fictional account of Kabir’s life by author Kiran Nagarkar. I have clarified that!

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3 years

“You cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.”—Agatha Christie

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3 years

“How long is forever? Sometimes just one second.” —Lewis Carroll

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1 year

Wishing all the #Diplomats around the world a very happy #InternationalDiplomatsDay from #India today! Thank you for #ServingPeopleGlobally and making our planet 🌍 a better place.

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4 years

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” ~ Michelangelo (6 March 1475- 18 Feb 1564)

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8 years

Katasraj temple near Lahore with a pond filled with tears of Shiva after the death of Sati

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3 years

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”—Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (12 Feb 1809-1882) #BOTD

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5 years

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.”—Mahatma Gandhi

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3 years

“Everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.” -Franz Kafka

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7 years

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

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7 years

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”- Rumi

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4 years

“I asked my soul, what is Delhi? She replied, the world is the body and Delhi its life.”- Mirza Ghalib, 27 December 1797-1869 #Ghalib

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3 years

“The river cannot go back…” For all of who #fear of death and disappearance, here is a poem by #KahlilGibran

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2 years

A view of my mother’s ancestral village- #Rehua , #Gaya district #Bihar .

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4 years

5th-century #Ganesha by Shahi King Khingala, found at Gardez, #Afghanistan , now at Dargah Pir Rattan Nath in #Kabul

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4 years

How #Kalidasa combines ecological and sensual to create #ecopoetry of lasting resonance

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7 years

“There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.”- Mahatma Gandhi

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4 years

“Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut you more deep. Let it ferment and season you as few humans and even divine ingredients can.” —Hafiz

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5 years

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people.”— James Baldwin

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1 year

Indian diplomats have written a number of books on statecraft, diplomacy; penned poetry, memoirs, novels, and have translated Indian classics. On the 77th Indian Foreign Service Day today, here is a list of rich legacy of their writings #IFSDay

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“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” - Charles Dickens

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“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”—Rumi

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“Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles.”—Buddha Image: Buddha in Abhaya Mudra - Circa 3rd-4thC. CE, Government Museum, Mathura

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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King Jr.

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4 years

“Everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.” -Franz Kafka #BOTD

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5 years

“I have decided to stick to love ... Hate is too great a burden to bear.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

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3 years

“In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.” - Virginia Woolf

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3 years

The last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Jafar’s poem on postal stamp Lagta nahiin hai jii mera ujray dayar mein.. Umr-i daraaz maang ke laaye they chaar din Do aarzu mein kat gaye do intezaar mein Hai kitna bad nasiib Zafar dafn ke liye Do gaz zamiin bhii na milii ku-ye yaar mein

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3 years

Delighted to share that my translation of #Kalidasa ’s #Ritusamhara published by @BloomsburyIndia “which highlights the #ecopoetry of Kalidasa when the world faces imminent threats of #biodiversityloss and #climatechange , is out now.

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5 years

73 years in service of the nation today. It was on this day in 1946 that the #IndianForeignService was created. Happy #IFSDay to all My colleagues. May the Service go from strength to strength in taking India to the world and bringing the world to India in coming decades. #IFS

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"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." ~ Albert Camus

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"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book" - Cicero, 43 BCE

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“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.” —Rabindranath Tagore

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जो बीत गई सो बात गई। —हरिवंश रॉय बच्चन #BOTD जीवन में एक सितारा था, माना वह बेहद प्यारा था, वह टूट गया तो टूट गया, अम्बर के आनन को देखो, कितने इसके तारे टूटे, कितने इसके प्यारे छूटे, जो छूट गए फिर कहाँ मिले, पर बोलो टूटे तारों पर, कब अम्बर शोक मनाता है। जो बीत गई सो बात गई।...

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"I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems." — Wislawa Szymborska #WorldPoetryDay2021

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4 years

“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

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8 years

A view of #Gwalior Fort, Madhya Pradesh, India 8th Century CE. The oldest record of #zero in the world was found here in a small temple.

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4 months

Nalanda University @nalanda_univ by night. Photos: Abhay K. | @biharfoundation

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3 years

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”—Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Gandhi and Tagore, Ahmedabad, 6th Conference on Literature in Gujarat, 3-5 April 1920 #Tagore #rabindranathtagorejayanti

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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it— always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi #Gandhi #MartyrsDay