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Ashtanayika:Kalahantarita (one separated by quarrel)

The Ashta-Nayika is a collective name for eight types of nayikas or heroines as classified by Bharata in his Sanskrit treatise on performing arts - Natya Shastra. The eight nayikas represent eight different states (avastha) in relationship to her hero or nayaka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqlNYXqSlX0

Here Mavin Khoo depicts Kalahantarita (one separated by quarrel)-  is a heroine separated from her lover due to a quarrel or jealous or her own arrogance. Her lover is usually depicted leaving her apartment disheartened, while she too becomes heartsick and repentant without him. In other portrayals, she is depicted refusing the advances of her lover or refusing a wine cup from him.

Ganga behti hai kyun?

Bistar hain apar, praja dono par
Kare hahakar nishapda sada
O ganga tum ganga behti ho kyun?

Naitikata nasht hui, manavta bhrasht hui
Nirlajya bhav se behti ho kyun?

Itihaans ki pukaar, kare hunkaar
O Ganga ki dhar, nirbal jan ko
Sabal sangrami, samagragrami
Banati nahi ho kyun? 

Anparh jan, aksharhin
Anginjan kaijyabihin
Nidrabihin dekh mouna kyun


Itihaans ki pukaar, kare hunkaar
O Ganga ki dhar, nirbal jan ko
Sabal sangrami, samagragrami
Banati nahi ho kyun? 
Vyakti rahe vyakti kendrik
Sakal samaj byaktitya rahit
Nishpran samaj ko tor ti naa kyun

-Bhupen Hazarika

The kathakali Man

The Kathakali Man is the most beautiful of men. Because his body is his soul. His only instrument. From the age of three he has been planed and polished, pared down, harnessed wholly to the task of story-telling. He has magic in him, this man within the painted mask and swirling skirts - Arundathi Roy

Poema de Mario

Sentir primeiro, pensar depois
Perdoar primeiro, julgar depois
Amar primeiro, educar depois
Esquecer primeiro, aprender depois
Libertar primeiro, ensinar depois
Alimentar primeiro, cantar depois
Possuir primeiro, contemplar depois
Agir primeiro, julgar depois
Navegar primeiro, aportar depois
Viver primeiro, morrer depois"

-Mario Quintana

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think, the way they see themselves, the way they see the world — you can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.

Chuck Palahniuk, Choke 

Falling

               

The River Dance

                                                                  With her hands she says to him,

                                              Oh Krishna, you are as beautiful as the monsoon clouds,

                                                            Your eyes are like blooming lotus petals

                                                     Oh Krishna - I always want to be in your presence

                                                                  The River- Movie by Jean Renoir 

Somewhere between right and wrong there is a garden. I will meet you there.

-Rumi

There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

Derrick Jensen, from A Language Older Than Words.