What Will Replace Silent Cries Then? (poem)

Ever thought that if instead of green stems, It was a vein flowing with crimson blood? If instead of white fibrous cellulose roots, It was thick black keratinous hair? If instead of waxy-cutaneous foliates, It was sebum sweating skin, That hums the pain which resonates The torture of a lusty …

Time Wrapped In A Temple

Time Wrapped In A Temple Apart from the Siege of Baghdad which happened in 1258,  Somanatha Dandanayaka, a general of the Hoysala King, built the Chennakesava Temple also known as the Kesava Temple, a Vaishava Hindu temple on the banks of River Kaveri at Somanathapura, Karnataka, India. I visited this …