Ashavari

Dr Jyothsnaphanija describes a raga of Hindustani music tangibly in this evocative verse – exclusively for Different Truths.

It is a picture of a flowing river
Cascading slides
Ascending notes are
Caressing feathers
Thorns of sunlight
They won’t prick the soul
Which is constantly told that you are accessing only
one-half of the access point.
The arrangement in any composition
is a shelter
with gentle pebbles.
lost in continuity.
You pause at every word,
and then
trace
a better form of reality.

Glossary:

Ashavari: is one of the ragas in Hindustani classical music.

Picture design by Anumita Roy