Comments on: Between Stars & Blades of Grass http://www.entropy.in/between-stars-blades-of-grass/ Both what you run from and what you yearn for are within you Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:31:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Entropy http://www.entropy.in/between-stars-blades-of-grass/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Entropy Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:30:16 +0000 http://mybanyantree.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/between-stars-blades-of-grass/#comment-72 Guruji Thanks & Gratitude for your enlightening comments and kind words.. Guruji

Thanks & Gratitude for your enlightening comments and kind words..

]]> By: max babi http://www.entropy.in/between-stars-blades-of-grass/comment-page-1/#comment-71 max babi Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:46:53 +0000 http://mybanyantree.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/between-stars-blades-of-grass/#comment-71 Ajay! This is marvelous. Not only the poem and the brilliant translation, but the fact that the poet is Ushanas -who studied at the same school as I did, Rosary High School at Baroda (Vadodara), and one of my dearest friends Dr. Pradip Khandwalla -the ex-director of IIM-A. In 1991-1995 I discovered Dr. Khandwalla as a fellow member of the Indian Poetry Society and visited him. Thus followed a chain of meetings at his cozy little cottage amidst unimaginably green campus of IIM-A. He would invite other poets and we would read out our new creations, and he would be kind enough to make constructive and at times incisive comments. He was very influential in teaching me the beauty of minimalism. I have rarely been impressed so deeply by the finesse of a personality as he commanded. He was also prophetic in analyzing my mental/emotional make-up with a casual remark that changed my life : he said I had very good 'holistic' understanding. Sadly this facet of my personality has been useless to me all along. Thanks for introducing two geniuses in one stroke. Cheerz! Max Ajay!

This is marvelous. Not only the poem and the brilliant translation, but the fact that the poet is Ushanas -who studied at the same school as I did, Rosary High School at Baroda (Vadodara), and one of my dearest friends Dr. Pradip Khandwalla -the ex-director of IIM-A.

In 1991-1995 I discovered Dr. Khandwalla as a fellow member of the Indian Poetry Society and visited him. Thus followed a chain of meetings at his cozy little cottage amidst unimaginably green campus of IIM-A. He would invite other poets and we would read out our new creations, and he would be kind enough to make constructive and at times incisive comments. He was very influential in teaching me the beauty of minimalism.

I have rarely been impressed so deeply by the finesse of a personality as he commanded. He was also prophetic in analyzing my mental/emotional make-up with a casual remark that changed my life :
he said I had very good ‘holistic’ understanding. Sadly this facet of my personality has been useless to me all along.

Thanks for introducing two geniuses in one stroke.

Cheerz!

Max

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