Black is the colour of the rain

Black is the colour

Of the rain that falls today

Black is the farm

And the crop that grows on it

Black is the sown

Black is thy plough

Oh bygone William, black is now your reaper

Black is the bone and black is the eye

So which is the daisy, which one the dew?

On that land of ice

White melts in fear

Sun burns away

Moon no more there

The whole world burns

Even the flame’s colour is black

So why play Holi

Coal will always smile

Yet there’s a heart

That smears a crumb of hope

The moon may be whitewashed

The rainbow painted anew

-Ritesh

06/03/2015

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Sailing the sea

Poetry is the yacht on which I sail the sea

I fear the storm no more

I carry a storm within

Ritesh Agarwal

05-03-2015

Colour me not today

Colour me not today
I was black for a day
On the land
Where red and green bickered
Let the white now prevail

03/03/2015

-Ritesh Agarwal

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Pray wake me not, desire

Pray wake me not, desire

The lightning that knocks is asking for me

-Ritesh Agarwal

01/03/2015

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Poem: Aankhon mein

Dil toh ye toot gaya,

Aankhon mein hi dekh lo moorat uski

(Translation: The heart lies broken. But these eyes will show you her face)

-Ritesh Agarwal

01-03-2015

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In the bazaars of Hyderabad-Sarojini Naidu (question-answers)

Q. How does Sarojini Naidu convey a message in the poem 'In the bazaars of Hyderabad'

A. Sarojini Naidu wrote this poem during the time of India's struggle for independence aiming to promote the boycott of foreign products.

      In this poem, Sarojini Naidu artfully describes the products made by the Indian craftsmen  and goldsmiths and myriad things sold by vendors, flowergirls, pedlars and fruitmen. Naidu wants people to boycott foreign products and provokes all Indians to consume indigenous products. She constructs a vivid, vivacious and colourful picture of the local bazaar of  Hyderabad in order to motivate her readers to visit indigenous markets. The hidden intent of the poem is not to give a visual description of the bazaars but to promote indigenous products amongst the citizens of the country. In context of the ongoing 'Swadeshi Movement', she suggests the boycott of British goods.

Instead of being preachy, direct and didactic, she simply presents a heart-rending portrait of Hyderabad's bazaars, showing its homeliness as opposed to the alienness of oversea goods.





-Ritesh Agarwal (for ICSE class 8)

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