S. Venugopal
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writer, teacher, mother, nature lover, animal lover, dog lover, babies and children lover, adventure lover, ocean lover, flower lover. Lover of color and beauty everywhere. Art and music lover. Dance lover. Word and book lover most of all.
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Lalita and the Banyan Tree
Lalita never planned to fall in love with a tree. The women noticed first. They could not fail to observe Lalita’s glow, skin lit as if she'd swallowed one of her diyas--tiny brass candleholders with ghee-soaked wicks--and the flame illuminated her from within. The women’s faces, however, drooped like sunflowers abandoned by sun as Lalita’s had also once done. They watched and wondered at the tree.
By S. Venugopal 4 years ago in Earth
The Raw, the Painful, the Shameful
When am I embodying an authentic self? Is it when I am in the flow of writing or painting, and nothing exists but the page or canvas I am filling? When that flow happens before my brain has registered what my hands are doing, they having taken on a life of their own?
By S. Venugopal 4 years ago in Families
