power point presentation of the national press meet on janaganamana100

janaganamana100

monday mosaic a weekly literary forum 22nd nov

monday mosaic a weekly literary forum 22nd nov

photo of the Monday Mosaic 15th nov

monday mosaic a weekly literary forum 15th nov

this week monday mosaic was held in association with the visakhapatnam public library as a part of the National Libray Week celebrations. the topic was Nehru as a writer. L.R.Swami presided the meeting. jagaddhatri was the first speaker. she expressed her views and feelings reading Nehrus works. she opined that Nehru was a follower of Gandhi but Nehru was more pragmatic than the former. if Nehru had to be assessed as a writer we ought to know him as a man. he was a very sensitive person, able statesman, a loving father , and had the calibre to play all the diverse roles in his personal and political life. Dr.Prasanna Kumar retired professor of Andhra University, a well read man and an effective speaker said that reading Nehru will charge him up and rejuvenate him. Quoting some anecdotes from the life of Nehru personal and political the speaker has made his speech interesting to the audience. The next speaker Ramateertha, writer, translator and critic and also a very good orator spoke about Nehru giving some new insights into studying Nehru in various facets. He proposed that the library management should conduct such meetings to discuss many things which cannot be done in an hour or two. it must be a series of meetings and people who are interested will attend. Saying that Chalam the great Telugu writer too like Nehru read and was influenced by Maeterlinck. He said that Chalam has written a story Kamala Nehru Samadhi Mundu Nehru( nehru beside the tomb of kamala nehru). this is a very unique experiment al writing of Chalam,as there is no tomb of Kamala existed in India at all. but the story shows the sensitive personality and the simplicity of a great politician who is even not allowed to have some time to at least mourn his beloved wife.People flock around him even there to see the great states man. quoting some more incidents from Dom Moraes autobiography My Son's Father ramateertha said that Dom was then a student and was also present when Kamala Nehru was in her last days. Dr. Maturi Srinivas writer and an active member of the Visakha patnam Steel Plant literary association rendered vote of thanks.Eminent vizagites like Dr.C.S. Rao, Varahalu Chetty and many others attended the meeting.

A POEM TO V (original poem in english by ramateertha)

A POEM TO MY V

Here is where my darling makes poetry
Adjusting the continental shelf
Positioning her writing pad of plateau
On the crouching back of mountains
With the astral bedside neon benignly aglow
Here is where my darling makes poetry

The swirling seas of alkaline sheet of water
Flow like ink through the sun - nib
Her uncapped fountain moving at a frantic pace
On the stationery of clouds
Makes Victoria falls look like
Running down tap water

Galaxies with starry bouquets
Wait outside for a permitting nod
For a condescending courtesy
Just a hello from her
Makes the universe contract and 
Expand again

Alphabets are stallions unleashed
In the wild meadows of her iridescent moods
Poems rush like waves to meet their match
On an alien coast
Epics are statues in galactical squares
Where the traffic of space is abounding
Poets are headstones of unborn graves
All quite familiar
Her poetry workshop
Looks like a bakery
Where the stellar dough is kneaded
On the epicenter of earth
Her poems are millions of people
Crust and core soft and mellowed
Waiting to claim the earth as their habitat
In the centuries to unfold

Here is where my darling makes poetry
In the uterus walls of universe
Like bread, the babies are in making
Her poems are a will written on the bread loaf 
Hidden
In the grain waiting to be harvested

She wields a sickle and sieve
To cut things to size, to filter the oddities
And to retain the quintessential memory ---
Of a brilliant memoir of a pulsating thought
Ripening to take birth

The whole world is a paper waiting to 
Capture her poem
Here is where my darling makes poetry
Keeping her date with an unfurled bird's wing,
Electrifying the vertical horizons with 
The wings of fire


                                To jagathi ,
                              On this valentine's day
                              RAMATEERTHA-
                            

Janaganamana 100 –

Bringing out a National poetry anthology on the Centennial occasion.

Janaganamana, the plank bearer song of  our independence movement along with Bandemataram, is entering its hundredth year  from 27.12.2010. The Centenary will continue up to 27.12.2011.

Tagore  recited this song for  the first time in the 26^th  National Congress Session at Calcutta on 27.12.1911. From 24.01.1950, the first  stanza of the song has received the honour of National Anthem of India.

To commemorate the occasion, a national poetry anthology is being brought out from Visakhapatnam, in Dec. 2010.The anthology will comprise poetic contributions from more than 100 poets from Andhra Pradesh and  other states of India.

In this connection,  as you are a poet of repute in your language,  you are reques to kindly send a A-4 page  poetic contribution  in English for inclusion in this anthology, which will be first brought out in Telugu, in Dec. 2010, and in English along with the Telugu  contributions, in Feb-March, 2011.

At Visakhapatnam leading the  centennial celebrations of the Janaganamana, a musical album, a souvenir, and a few other  related publications are underway slated to be released in the last week of December, 2010.

As such, your kind contribution  may kindly be sent to Dr. T.S.Chandra Mouli, the  Member –liaison, Editorial Board,  by e-mail on or before 15.11.2010. Please appreciate that contributions  received after deadline will not be considered, due  to practical constraints.

Thanks and regards,

T.S.Chandra Mouli PRO, MOSAIC LITERARY ASSOCIATION, AND JANAGANAMANA 100.