Prof Malashri Lal illuminates a soul’s quest for Ma Tara’s grace amid invisible battles, an evocative poem on DifferentTruths.com.
Looking for a female force
to whom I could be confessional
I went seeking Ma Tara
born of Avalokiteswara’s tears
caused by the prevailing injustices.
Under the green canopy of pines
I prayed for Ma Tara’s compassion
for mine were a woman’s invisible battles of a wounded soul.
Lost in reverie, I suddenly heard
‘Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha’,
She had arrived before I had completed my supplication.
Picture from wallpaper cave
Malashri Lal, a renowned writer and academic, retired professor, at the University of Delhi’s English Department, has published 24 books, including Tagore and the Feminine, The Law of the Threshhold: Women Writers in Indian English, and Betrayed by Hope, which won the Kalinga Fiction Award. Lal’s poems, Mandalas of Time, have been translated into Hindi. She is currently the Convener of the English Advisory Board of Sahitya Akademi. Honours include the prestigious ‘Maharani Gayatri Devi Award for Women’s Excellence’.
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