This translation of an excerpt from Abanindranath Tagore's Apan Katha (Self-Story) presents an example of the artist's worlding - a willed disposition to experience by which we make for ourselves a home in the world through creative relationship. ...   more »

Durga is the Divine Mother's aspect of luminous Power. She is known for the slaying of the Buffallo Demon, Mahisasura. She (and her companion aspects of the Divine Mother) are particularly active at this time of the year. In these two poems, I contemplate Durga as she has been realized in stone at two ancient Goddess worship sites of India - Mamallapuram, near Pondicherry in South India and Ellora, in the hills of the western Deccan.   more »