Earthly Musings

  रंग बदल गये हैं जीवन के , खुश हूँ एकान्तिक हरियाली में चहल - पहल से दूर कहीं हटकर घर शांत धरा की प्याली में   सपनों की दौड़ से थक कर , रुका था वृक्ष की छाया में , सुलझाने को उलझे गुथी इस अतरंगी जग माया में   भीड़ की गूंजें छूट गईं अब हर क्षण मौन अपनाना है इच्छाओं के ज़ंजीरों पर       पूर्ण विराम लगाना है   रंग वही पर भाव नए अब पैमानों   के आयाम नए अब न कोई चाह अधूरी , जग भी पुलकित साया है   मौसम बदलते रहते हैं नित दिन मन भी धुन दोहराता है नील गगन में मल्हार बनकर जीवन नए गीत सुनाता है   तो हाँ — अब रंग बदल गये हैं जीवन के , खुश हूँ एकान्तिक हरियाली में शशि बिखेरती है चांदनी प्रकाश परोसे थाली में ! jpkallikkal/2025

  Hello Cloud.... New Delhi/28th May, 2025 (As it rains in Palakkad) Hello Cloud, I am unable to catch up with you You drift afar on winds I cannot pursue; My feet are chained to earth, yet heart beats true To sip thy wine from places longings reside blue Each drop you spill, I yearn to kiss anew, A yearning, a   silent bliss, I wish to renew.   But skies are vast and I am impishly slow, And you soar where mortal men can’t go.   I called thee once in gardens drenched in dew Where lilies leaned and whispered songs new; Thou wept a while, as if thy soul always knew The thirst I bore, the ache time couldn't continue   Now, thy mist retreats from passion's shore— Thou say's, “My path obeys a deeper lore.”   O cruel seraph sailing sapphire seas, Dost not thy breast - feel tremors born in encore? I built thee altars, knelt in dewy lees, And drank thy scent like consecrated seas. But fate, thou say’st, is stitched in win...

  jpkallikkal© 2025 O+ve I am no phlebotomist but if I were friends with the Culicidae family, I would have been a billionaire today. Since early years, I discovered that the females from the Anopheles family were very fond of me.   The nymphomaniac variety would seek me out in the dark and plant their deepest kisses on my epidermis. The foreplay and after play sessions invariably left a long-lasting imprint on my body.   I would thereafter carry signs of such nocturnal quests several weeks into the future in the form of red visible perturbations.   An itchy reminder of their continuing love affair with me. Life is never easy in a tropical temperamental God’s own country where number of female species outnumber males! With passage of time, I have discovered new patterns and changes in my temporal existence having to encounter tastes and preferences of such lot.   I learnt new ways to face them.   My experiments with truth showed that repellents, swat ...

    Kanniyarkali – New heights – Rising glory Jaya Prakash Kallikkal Enmeshed in the cultural ethos of Palakkad are traditions that have delectable mix of Kerala Nair community and its culture.   A tinge of folk dance and music traditions, drawing inspiration from various historical and social traditions from Chera, Pallava and Chola dynasties resonate through Kanniyarkali. Interweaving the life of common folk creatively communicated through the medium of story-telling, mono acting, group dance, costume, theatre and musical traditions Kanniyarkali, encapsulates folk traditions.   Palakkad upholds a unique identity in the landscape of Kerala. Often referred to as ‘The Granary of Kerala’, passage of time has not penetrated this gem of a land in the map of Kerala. While towering concrete structures and crowded market places are replacing rural topography with passage of time, Palakkad is perhaps a hidden paradise that greets a visitor to a vast expanse of...