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Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Seren thoughts)

Alexander Orok - NIGERIA
Alexey Yakovtsev - UKRAINE

Alexey Yakovtsev from Odessa, is a New Age spiritual researcher, mystic & educationalist who lives, self-sufficient on the land, in a forest village deep in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, with his wife, Maria, their educational project being called The Sothis Programme, their emblem, the Dog-star

F O R E W O R D

If you intend to read T. Ashok Chakravarthy's verses in the way that we have got used to reading any book, you will be disappointed. Moreover, your employment will seem to you to be an empty expenditure of time, you will miss out and ask yourselves, why you still read on, instead of interrupting this employment. But try to read these verses by the soul. More correctly, it is not necessary to read them, they need to be felt. Yes, yes, just by the soul…
And at first you will not feel anything. A little later you are surprised to feel unfamiliar internal sensations, if the dialogue with the soul is not familiar yet to you. But then you will be dipped into the world of the soul.
You will see no longer a boy, but not yet a youth. Then it will be the young man searching by love and light. Here he already imagines, with what he would like to see the future. With what it should be to like all. But how to achieve this? This remains an insoluble riddle …
And the shadows, which are around, again lean on the man. They are different, but there are a lot of them, and this is our today's life. Life in a shadow and in shadows. And there is only hope for man today. Hope and dreams. But is that all there is and nothing more?
But what still remains for the man in this world without pure water and air, when the people destroy all around themselves, and even similarly themselves, where the people are pleased and dance because there are millions of those like them as they suffer from the wars, begun by themselves. Again there are shadows and gloom; also dawn is not visible. And still that loneliness of a man surrounded with other people.
It is terrible, but it is harden. Because the man has an opportunity to see, that one-sole thing in this world that remains constant. This is a hope …
This book represents a philosophy of life. You see each man has a philosophy. Only not all of us are capable to stating it. Anyway, this is one more point of view, one more picture of the world, in which we live and of man in this world. And of the world inside man. And it is perfectly, because, the more people are able to describe this world, the more real it will become in our eyes. The more close we shall appear to that, tomorrow's world, which is so promised because there are no wars, injustice, famine and violence in it, because man lives in Light and Love in it.

So, chose: this philosophy of life can give a good lesson and basis for several following steps in the searches of the soul in each of you. And even if this is not pleasant to you, - be not afflicted. You can tell yourselves, that T. Ashok Chakravarthy has helped you to investigate one more hiding place of your alter egos where you were not yet, and where you have not found the light of the soul. Then it is necessary to thank the author and to continue your searches in the other directions, understanding nevertheless that any small particle has increased your individual experience with this book. And, the means, the time is not lost by the gift.
Well, but if the world of your soul has opened up to you, while you read this book, it means, that T. Ashok Chakravarthy has presented you what is most precious, that is being a man in this world. He has presented himself for you and that is a Divine gift!

Light and Love,
Alexey Yakovtsev
U K R A I N E
Bernard M. Jackson - united kingdom
FOREWORD

BERNARD M. JACKSON
International poet – Review-writer

Throughout my many years of close literary association with India’s burgeoning poetry movement, it has been my privilege as a recognized review writer to be an intimate sharer of the dreams, ambitions and fervent aspirations of so many rising poets of an extensively changing national environment. But even more than that, I have time and again been deeply touched by the genuine sensitivity of emotion evinced by so many of Mother India’s worthy sons and daughters, and have been constantly aware of an often-shared powerful vein of spiritual urgency and intent, at the very core of such estimable writings. It was therefore with open readiness that I welcomed the initial draft of Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy’s current collection of poems. And though it had been by the merest chance that the writer had managed to locate my home-address, it would seem that we had been, indeed, destined to make one another’s literary acquaintance.

Now, after having read and deeply appreciated the fine selection of poems here contained, I can honestly say that Ashok is no longer a total stranger to me; rather he is to be considered as a fellow-poet, an eloquent dreamer, a spiritual idealist whose writings I greatly admire for the universality and heartfelt concern for humanity – regardless of creed, race or color. Hailing from the bustling great city of Hyderabad, poet / author / translator and essayist, Ashok Chakravarthy has intensified his efforts in the composition of poetry on an increasing level in the ensuing period. His being conferred with D.Litt (Doctor of Literature) by the prestigious World Academy of Arts and Culture, USA., reflect the quality he possess.

p.t.o…

In conclusion, I feel I really must pay due tribute to those fine words contained in Ashok’s excellent poem, “The Right Place” :

Let us resolve to build peaceful environs
With sincere efforts and trust-filled visions.
Let us curb the tendencies of violence,
Choosing the paths of peace and tolerance.
Let us unite, irrespective of case and creed,
Aiming to accomplish universal brotherhood.

Here, then is a poet of great integrity, a writer who truly evinces universal appeal.

Bernard M. Jackson
International Poet /
Review Writer
Dr. Ernesto Kahan, MD MPH Israel
Dr. Ernesto Kahan, MD MPH Head of Epidemiology
Department of Family Medicine
Tel Aviv University
I S R A E L

- Vice President-World Congress of Poets - World Academy of Arts and Culture (Approved by UNESCO)
- President-Israel Physicians for Peace and Preservation of the Environment and Co-Vice President of IPPNW.
- Vice President-IFLAC (The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace)

F O R E W O R D

The poetry of Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy is enormously suggested. It is a permanent invitation to open the door of our heart to reach

The delicate flowers...
The rainy showers... T
he twinkling stars ...
The rotund moon...
Thoughts flocked...
Illusions swooped...

He is a real poet, a polite, reliable, honorable and colorful, just like a garden of flowers. He is telling you his world feelings, plain of imagination, approach of love, peace and harmony. Deeper intuitions
Something I should ignite
Something I ought to write
This dark night, if not
Shatter my thoughts might.I like his lovely poetry and feel very much touched by his message and soul!
I know him since many years always as an active and enthusiastic member of the movement of the World Congress of Poets under the auspices of the World Academy of Arts and Culture and in the IFLAC (The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace). His poetry is a friendly attitude to our life in peace in our Mother Earth: To some extent, let optimism prevail.

Ernesto Kahan, MD MPH
Maria Cristina Azcona - Argentina

Maria Cristina Azcona

Maria Cristina Azcona is a bilingual writer and poetess whose work has been recognized worldwide and translated into many languages. She has authored four books in Argentina, and hundreds of poems and articles in international literary journals. She is also a freelance Peace Expert for UNESCO EOLSS Encyclopedia, Director in Argentina for the IFLAC, International Forum for a Literature and a Culture of Peace. Also she is Director and Founder of Bilingual MCA, Bilingual Poets and Writers for Peace, where Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy is an honored member. ==================================================================Foreword to the Book of poetry by Dr. Tholana Ashok Chakravarthyby Maria Cristina Azcona, Argentina

This book written by the virtuous hand of the talented poet Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy, brings us to mysterious spaces existing between Nature and Society, Human Soul and Fate

“The inevitable fate
Cannot be evaded

But …The intolerable hunger
Is enforced to bear
……….
But the essence of peace
Is still elusive as ever.”

This magisterial approach to Peace lyrics, finds its route towards the most exquisite expression, through the fantastic bridge of the author’s brilliancy. He is aware of the obscurity and lightness in human souls, while he constructs beautiful metaphors that polarize Nature and Society, Destiny and Self -determination, Youth hood and Maturity, Peace and War, pearls of wisdom among the ashes of the dissolute civilization. Post-modernism has swallowed cultural meanings and covered them with a cloudy gown of monstrosity, but aware of the responsibility he detents, the poet refuses to shut his eyes to poverty, hunger, violence and injustice surrounding him. He remains sensitive and profound, transporting our cognitive thoughts towards righteousness, finding the way towards Beauty through the suffering environment. His main achievement is to recreate Earth from the perspective of aesthetics, in a virtual synthesis of his intuitive conjectures.

“The hot mid-noon summer days
The day after day starving hours
Bone-sucked and almost lifeless
There lay an orphan, motionless.”

Nature in all its melancholy brings the poet a pretext to bring us this breathtaking piece

“I know the delights of a rain filled cloud
I know the charm of a striking rainbow
But the pathetic state of distant dry clouds
Spill the seeds of dejection and sorrow.”

The poet feels the sorrow while observing cruelties and madness in his Era.But, is poetry capable of changing the world? Could possibly literary genius transform this Evil into a genuine paradise of peace? In fact, poets are sometimes the philosophers of the future, the visionary builders of our new home, in the sense of a better-designed civilization. The amazing sound of the astonishment exploding into the soul of an artist who is aware of the most appalling truth, reaches our understanding in a painful way:

“Peace! Like a broken mirror forcibly hanged
Nailed as if to the clutches of gloom and doom
Revealing images of poverty and conflicts within
There reflect yet another vision of dreary future”.

His work in this book combines alliterations, redundancies and internal rhymes with elegies about human sins in nowadays world joined to a contrastable comparison among love and hate. Darkness and brightness are described even with an exaltation of goodness. Nevertheless, poetry is first and foremost, Poetry. Poets need to express the internal feelings, which produce tempests of emotions mixed with the most cherished dreams of peace. Culture grows on the shoulders of vanguards; its development is not a placid travel but an awe-inspiring conception that is born to endure millenniums. Peace Poetry dares to face the present and future of our planet without loosing the beauty of rhythm and its divine intent. Controversial and provocative, this kind of poetry is conceived as a pacific reaction to nowadays reality. What my own poetry (Postmodern Hell, Peaceful Agony and others) sustains as social. Poetry is the concept of a better world joined to the critic view of art upon ugliness of human behavior, represented by injustice, war, terrorism and inequality.

The eye of an eagle has a panoramic concept of reality. This book does not fail in the intention to bring us an accurate moral analysis of post-modernity, capable of making us see the problem and perceive the solution.

“We will be happy, let everyone still
Let's pray, wit provides us such will
Instead of standing a mute witness
Why not we seek universal oneness
Let peace be the option of all, yes
Let us resolve to strengthen peace.”

This is an ode to Beauty because it incarnates in its real meaning completed with a full content of deep values, and not an empty bottle, without scent. His literary work is what it ought to be: A vehicle between the coldest Pole of Ignorance and the Warm Pole of Awareness. This book is an artistic invocation to our critical and moral thought in its most sophisticated expression: Poetry.

“We got moved by droughts and famines
Yes, got shocked by wars and destructions
We stood mute by deaths of starvation
Being humans, let’s sow seeds of concern.
A change in attitude is the need of the hour
O human! Time is ripe to amend our manner.”

Maria Cristina Azcona, Argentina

Reflections

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Reflections)

Prof. Dr. Ernesto Kahan - Israel
Prologue to the Poetry Book
‘REFLECTIONS’
of Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy, D.Litt., India
By : Prof. Dr. Ernesto Kahan, Israel

Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy, is a great Indian writer, essentially an international poet who inscribes his lyric in favor of universal peace and harmony. He is a Universal Peace Ambassador and the Vice-Chair, Global Harmony Association. For me he is part of a magnificent river. I dedicate to him the following verses which I wrote in 2011:

The river arrived...
Bringing water, sweet and in love -
Transparent drops and ice from the mountains
Mother Himalayas, mother Aconcagua…
When it passed through India and Nepal,
it is filled by meditation and compassion…

When he asked me to write a prologue for this book of his new poems, I felt much honored, and at the same time responsible. During all my life I have considered myself as a physician and a poet dedicated to tolerance, non-violence, peace, and alert about the threat of nuclear weapons as well as an emissary for the prevention of nuclear war.

I know Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy from many associations of writers and intellectuals for culture of peace and world harmony and from the World Congresses of Poets being organized by the World Academy of Arts and Culture. Although we communicate with each other in English, which is not my native tongue, we also know how to communicate in another, maybe more important language i.e., the language of the eyes and mind. In his poem entitled IMPARTING AN ASPECT he writes the following:

[…] The little human eyes
Can shower a sea of sorrow,
The little heart
Can hold an ocean of emotion;
They knows no language
Yet they can react and respond,
They have no barriers
Yet they see something beyond. […]

This book is well integrated and flows from one poem to the following and in total is a hymn to nature, freedom, happiness and life:

[…] When the doors of nature in the universe
Were wide open with a pleasant view,
We, with selfish motives and ill-intention
Have let loose a reign of mass destruction […]

[…] Blessed are the flowers which during nights blossom
Blessed are the buds which for a tomorrow dream,
Blessed are the clouds adorning the sky with delight
Blessed are we, whoever cherishes the adorable sight […]

[…] Without love ….
there is no tolerance
Without tolerance ….
there is no peace
Without peace ….
there is no prosperity
Without prosperity ….
there is no happiness
Without happiness ….
there is no meaning for life […]

In the year 2009 I was commented that our current society is at a transcendental crossroads. On one hand, the use of natural resources is very efficient, but on the other, that same use is endangering the continuity of life on our planet. On one hand, new technology and systems of intensive production permit us to obtain an elevation in the quality of life for all humanity, but on the other, new conflicts are threatening to use weapons of mass destruction, mainly atomic, and with it the potential destruction of our civilization and life on Earth. Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy is clearly walking in the way of the protection of life and his poetry is highly enrolled towards that.

The author assumed a compromise in a beautiful manner and splendid lyric

[…] Though ….
Desperately I try to explore
The prospects of meeting you;
Destined, I anticipate
Another cursed dawn
Would dawn upon my sweet love.

Tomorrow will definitely dawn
But there cannot be another day
Where memoirs can once again rejoice
The sweetest delight of delights
That is ‘your memorable relation […]

Reading this book and its fabulous poems, the readers feel also a compromise and want to walk together with the author

[…] The nectar of love is the essence of peace
It, in fact is life’s eternal existence resource
Both dwell within, yes, within all of us
To savor the life’s precious and memorable bliss […]

Thanks to Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy for this brilliant book! I strongly recommend this book. ENJOY HIS POETRY!

- Prof. Emeritus Dr. Ernesto Kahan MD

- University Professor - Poet – Physician, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Honorary President of the Israeli Association Writers. Spanish Branch
- 1st Vice President & Secretary General- World Academy of Arts and Culture USA
- Honorary President Co-Founder United Nations of Letters
- Vice President Intl Forum for Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC)
Prof. Kodanda Ram - India
A MARVEL OF POETIC ‘REFLECTIONS’
A Foreword by Prof. Kodanda Ram
to Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy’s poetry collection

It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right of freedom

… Mahatma Gandhi

When oppression and suppression of freedom and speech is imposed by force, the hushed-up feelings emerge out in the form of verse or couplet. Ultimately reaching the silent shores, such expressions travel and flow on the lyrical waves and free themselves from the tangle of suppression of freedom-seeking thoughts. Once softened, they emerge out in the form of beautiful and stirring couplets or verse. It is to proclaim with pride that the six-decade long struggle for Telangana statehood gave birth to several such writings by writers, singers, lyricists and balladeers in the Telangana region. And, through their writings and songs, these artists played a vital role in educating the masses and successfully advocating the dire need for fulfillment of the long-cherished cause. Dr. Ashok Chakravarthy is one such poet hailing from Hyderabad, the capital city of the newly formed (on 2nd June, 2014) Telangana State of India. Familiar for his poetic skills which brought him immense name and fame in the international arena of poetry, I too got deeply fascinated with his idiomatic ways of expressing things through poetry compositions. I feel it a great privilege to be a part and parcel of his fifth volume of poetry, titled, ‘Reflections’.

Having read poem after poem, the splendor of the expressions rhythmically unfold and drag the reader to the domain of peace and solace. Knitting poetry with the elements of universal peace, environment protection, children welfare, poverty and concern for nature; the poet weaves a spell with heart-pleasing words and phrases. Breaking the barriers of borders, religion and region, the poet imparts poetic message through his poems. The pretty lines in the poem, ‘What A Delight’ …. Amity and identity adorn the earth as ornamental peace / A place, where human love and concern should thrive; / Why can’t we exhibit our wit, patience and tolerance? / To sort out forced alienations and budding differences … espouse in the reader the feelings of solace and serenity. His profound expressions in the poem ‘Now And Then’ brings before our eyes the images of what poverty is and land our hearts in the vortex of emotion … With tattered clothes / I sight a child, / Perhaps an orphan / Who still reflect / At this mid-life / In my heart’s eye.

In a bid to spread the message of harmony and human co-existence, the poet proves his credentials as a Universal Peace Ambassador by creating the lovely poetic breeze that would prevail in a peace-filled world. This particular poem, ‘A Non-violent World’ stands a testimony of the poet’s peace yearning …. When the waves of true love and emotion surge / Perfect Peace and contentment would resurge, / By helping the starving and serving the needful / A person is bound to reach a refuge of joy-eternal. The mind-boggling rhyming and timing, exploring ever-new and beneficial messages through fragrance of love, allied with philosophical touch pleases the reader’s heart. One such remarkable poem, ‘Love Begins With Me’ … Naked, we come into the world, naked we would leave / But the one eternal thing that remains forever is, ‘Love’, / Like the buzzing bee swirling around the lotus-petals / We humans should encircle humanity, like love-pearls… speaks as to how the theme enlightens and implants in us the seed of what the ultimate of life is!

The spiritual instinct in the poet surges and emerges out to poetically express the remarkably hidden thoughts of ‘salvation through enlightenment’. Thus flow the garland of words in the poem ‘Enlightenment’ … Seek the light of Peace / To share the ultimate of passion / Seek the path of passion / To discover a source for salvation. Further, a treasure of words flow from the poet’s pen and a flock of feelings surround the poet’s swarming thoughts. Gifted by these rare features, the poet communicates his emotive feelings through the poem ‘The Pursuit’ with these pleasant lines … Though am alone, I had many a companion / With the beautiful nature around to fascinate / The poetic musings often stir around and oscillate / Scribbling one after the other solitary tune thereon. Not lagging behind any poet in expression of excellent passionate feelings, the poem ‘If Not…’ reflects the innate feelings … In memory of death-defying love, I hauntingly hurl / A feast of romantic poetry is bound to unravel / Lo! She has painted my life and its destination / If not, I cannot be a poet wielding the romantic pen.

Almost all the poems in the prestigious collection, titled, REFLECTIONS possess a philosophical melody and at times they seem to be reaching beyond normal imaginations. Every line expresses a deep feeling, wherein dwells sensitivity and exemplary qualities that make a real poet. With a firm resolve if the readers aspire to understand the poems in a true spirit, they are bound to experience a spectacular lyrical and poetical delight.

I personally wish and advise all poetry readers and literary lovers to acquaint with this rare quality of writings presented through this brilliant compilation of poems. I wish Dr. Ashok Chakravarthy, all the very best in his future endeavors.

Prof. M. Kodanda Ram
Prof. of Political Science
Osmania University
Hyderabad – 500 007
Telangana State, INDIA
Ms. Susana Roberts - Argentina
MS. SUSANA ROBERTS
POET/WRITER-ARGENTINA

Dr Honoris Causa WAAC-2009
Vice Dir Iflac Argentina and Sudamerica
Ambassador of Peace-Genevre-Suisse
Honorary President Hispan American union writer
Honoray Member Global Harmony Association
Member Ethical Ecological World Assembly
Member Presidium World Forum -
Spiritual Culture-Astana_Kazajastan

A FOREWORD to ‘REFLECTIONS’
(A collection of poems by Dr. Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy, Poet, India)

This wonderful collection of nearly one hundred poems are directed to question the current situation how humanity has been evolved from the most important point: its essence. This book is the outcome to help the devastated society lacking in values and the author intends, through poetic words illuminate the readers with such Reflections. This seems to be the propose of this writer, whose book is a warning to the whole society, a book full of universal meaning from the headline to the end, intense words accompany us…. let us act perfect for a perfect future (Nature And Me).

The poet declares about himself: to have been a poet: “the prisoner of thoughts in the heart” (Poet's heart) and from there he opens the awakening of consciousness from where one would go on uninterruptedly through the contents of poems in this great work. He also denounces and warns about situations of today, at the same time educates with advises. In the poem “Attitude”, he says: to safeguard the human instinct ... we have to change it ... we have to transform it ... we have to struggle for it, and as a plea he says: let us all understand human values .. let us all stand together with a sole aim… and insists…if everyone strives..if everyone.

In the XXI century, we should have been advanced in spiritual goodwill with many solid bases in different parts of the planet, but it happens the opposite, so this author as a responsible contemporary intellectual in his worthy job; struggles for unity and brotherhood, solidarity and awakening of consciousness. This is a fact. There is something precious to recollect and recover which is allowing us to move forward towards universal progress with dignified human values. This author is a fountain of good inspiration to others, whether near or far from every faith. His words come from a pure poetic spirit nurturing co-existence and this is the moment for the people to live in peace with neighbors, and these precious feelings are meant for everyone’s happiness.

We all have to stop, - to see, feel, listen each poem; listen with the heart as to what is happening all around and how we can overcome the adversaries. As the fact of being alive here and now, the presentation of poems provide an unparalleled delight, achieving a sense of introspection amongst the readers.

It is a great honor for me to write words about the work of an author like Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy, whom I fully admire, who lives far off from my country (Argentina), where different language, traditions and customs exist. But I agree with the concept of universal peace with universal action - building bridges of understanding with spiritual values without differences of any kind. The fight through poetry is demonstrated by him at the time he takes a pen and writes word after word from the true human soul - with love for humanity. In this way, the poet chose to make it possible to convey mankind the required patience and thought to survive inside a global technological growth with PEACE.

Reading Chakravarthy’s poems hailing from the land of Spiritual India and of Mahatma Gandhi, unfold before me a complete bright view of an ‘Indian’s Universe’ over this vast southern deserted place of wind (Argentina) and I realize that the goodness of this author illuminates every horizon. He says: let’s show our unity, overcome egoism, ideals of peace... in addition, love, he is sensitive to the nature and mother earth …does not neglect... with wounds all over / and the lurking shadows of devastation / look at us, mournful, pitiful and disgraceful, with a deep feeling awake, can we continue .. at least now, oh humans!

As a reputed and universal admirable poet and writer, Dr. Ashok Chakravarthy is responsible for the great awareness of this time, which is resonating like an eternal song here in Occident and there in Orient. He says: memory is my companion, it speaks any language. Here, the poetic soul thrives within him without any blocks of walls and doors, but with words surging alive between the alternate reality of today, - a fresh look lost in a world that is emerging in small human stature with an invisible preaching to the eyes and mind. This is the important fact that prevails and this book (REFLECTIONS) is a good tool for the concretization for the next future that awaits us all.

Ms. Susana Roberts
poet-writer-Argentina
Dr. Leo Semashko - Russia

Dr. Leo Semashko
President : Global Harmony Association
(with 500 co-authors from 56 countries and in 17 languages)
State Councillor of St. Petersburg,
Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker
Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia

FOREWORD TO DR. T. ASHOK CHAKRAVARTHY’S
FIFTH COLLECTION OF POEMS TITLED, REFLECTIONS

"This collection of poems ‘REFLECTIONS’ focuses on four main themes: peace, children, love and harmony. These poems inspire the reader. One feels that they are written by a poet who is deeply devoted to them. In fact, Dr. Tholana Chakravarthy is the Vice President of Global Harmony Association (GHA), and has published many brilliant poems about peace, harmony, and children on the GHA website “Peace from Harmony” (www.peacefromharmony.org) and in many books of GHA: Global Civilization (2009), The ABC of Harmony (2012), Global Peace Science from Harmony, etc.

Deep social responsibility of the poet-author is expressed in his words that we are helpless in the global horror of terror, because “we fail to co-exist in harmony” (poem THE DISORDER). He is confident that the way out of this horror lies only on a harmonious path (poem HARMONIOUS PATH). Unfortunately, this key idea does not find development in collection. But despite this, it wakes up the good feelings, draws the reader towards peace, love and harmony, reinforcing people, especially the youth, with faith and enthusiasm in them. It is very important for the spiritual progress of humanity. Therefore, I advise all readers, especially the young, closely acquainted with this collection of original poetry."

- Dr. Leo Semashko, President,
Global Harmony Association, - Russia
Dr. Krishna Guranathrao Kulkarni - India
Dr. Krishna Guranath rao Kulkarni

Retd. Prof / Freelance Journalist - KARNATAKA STATE, India

“REFLECTIONS”, is the second anthology out of the five collections I have read, enjoyed and contemplated by me, which is composed by a young friend of mine who is a quadragenarian called Dr. Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy, Litt.D, serving as a Manager of well-known agricultural bank, named “The Telangana State Co-operative Apex Bank Ltd.” (TSCAB) having its Head Quarters in the Charminar-famed city of Hyderabad.

This anthology is a compilation of one short of hundred poems (Ninety Nine) which are all perfect lyrical poems. In this collection of poems the poet’s lyricism, imagination, mode of expression and emotion, have found a relief in a joyous outburst of spontaneous expression.

It is an admitted fact that the study of such poems will certainly help the reader to enjoy the beauty of the expressions of those thoughts. Till today I got an opportunity of reading nearly 200 such elegant poems composed by the peace loving poet Dr. Tholana. I confess cogently that every poem of him has added a millimeter to my mental horizon.

I am of the firm opinion that Dr. Ashoka is a man gifted with great poetic talent and powers. He composes his poems as ebulliently as a great poet. As a poet he is enormously popular not only in India but also abroad. The chief quality of this great poet is his sincerity both in his life and in his poetry. In short simplicity is the core of his lifestyle. Simplicity is also the characteristic feature of a good poetry. I personally like his robust simplicity, veracity and directness of concept. No doubt he is a poet of first water.

Being a lyrist the poet has used the English language with mastery and music. There is the wealth and variety of vocabulary and poetic expression in his poetry. As there is a magic of enchantment in his songs, his lyrics have a sweetness and poignancy all their own. So it appears to the reader that they sing themselves into the universal heart. He is able to do by means of words what the musicians does by the meter and the painter does by means of colours. The following lines of the poet upheld the remarks made above –

In his poems sound and sense are inseparable :
1. To break the trust,
To bridge the trust,
Which one is easier,
Unhesitantly the first – (Break-Even Point)

There is a slight variety in the rhythm of his poetry:
2. Why can’t we be apart in restoring “Peace”
To make our planet Earth, “A SANCTUARY OF PEACE” - (A Sanctuary of Peace)

He uses words for the sake of their sound effects :
3. At midnight under the moon light
I stand beneath with a drowsy delight – (When Shall We Awaken)

The poet is gifted with remarkable power of speech. While reading his poems one will notice the importance given by him for communication in his poems. He writes not for his own pleasure but primarily to communicate his own thoughts and emotions to his readers. That’s why his poems are full of messages:-

In this stanza the clarion call of the poet is sounded to awaken the people from a state of stupor:
1. The Mother Earth with wounds all over ,
And the lurking shadows of devastation,
Looks at us, mournful, painful and disgraceful,
Can we Awake now at least, O Humans ! - (Awake Now At Least)

Plain familiar words in their natural order form the bed-rock of his style:
2. Like buzzing bee swirling around the lotus-petals
We humans should encircle humanity, like love pearls. – (Love begins with me)

The philosophy of this couplet is that forgetfulness of our duty results from self indulgence :
3. Let us be perfect for a future perfect,
In a perfect way for a perfect world- (Nature And We)

The poet is a hero by virtue of the fact that he reveals truth to us. He has a direct insight into reality. That’s why; he is able to describe reality so vividly to us. The below mentioned lines go to prove this statement.

This couplet reveals complete understanding of human psychology:
1. Though I desperately try to break this silence ,
I find no one near to grab the fleeing chance – (Lo! What Can I Do)

There is the flow of rhythm and brevity of expression:
2. Unless the Sun sets there won’t exist an iota of life ,
Yes, let us think positive and brave the paths of grief – (Think Positive)

His poetic diction is mostly simple and clear:
3. Lo! Where are we heading to haunts me often ,
Encircled by ecological break and crying orphans. - (The Disorder)

Dr. Chakravarthy is a poet of nature. He loves nature and worships nature .Like Wordsworth he loves nature as he finds it. He describes nature with admirable simplicity .There are several graphic descriptions of nature in this anthology. He laments for the exploitation of this good Earth. He criticizes this selfish tendency of man in his poems through soft words and in a milder way. To quote his own lines :

He describes vividly the nature of the exploitation of man in this stanza:
1. When the doors of nature in the universe ,
Were wide open with a pleasant view,
We with selfish motives and ill intention,
Have let loose a reign of mass destruction – (Nature And We)

No aspect of the activities of nature remains hidden from his searching eye:
2. The moon and stars are duty bound to enthrall ,
Nature performs its task to help human survival – (Think Positive)

Thus nature seemed to him also divine, unspeakable deep as high as heaven.

The poet describes the pathetic conditions of the poor very minutely but it is with a more moving sympathy, a deeper pathos and brilliance of phrase. This pitiable plight of the poor has been depicted by the poet in these lines –

He paints the pitiable condition of the poor exactly as it is :
1. The hour after hour pounce ;
Of the dreadful hunger
Spreading its fatal tentacles,
Deep in to poverty-stricken slums - (How Can You)

There is in him an eye to see and soul to do:
2. Hunted by death trampled by hunger
Poverty knocks the tolerance of the poor,
Where do the strings of Mercy dwell? - (Mercy)

The poet is a propagator of world peace. He gives much importance and priority for the maintenance of world peace in his poems. The following lines of the poet deserve to be quoted here :

1. On the ripples of freedom , float the thoughts of peace,
Devoted! Let us honour and strengthen the ideals of peace - (The Ideals Of Peace)

2. Peace has become a distant mirage ,
Unmasking violence with a fit of rage – (The Moments)

3. Lo! The so called protectors of peace ,
Why not the wars could be averted - (A Sanctuary of Peace)

In almost all the poems of this Anthology the poet has expressed his unique emotional experience which is really a source of pleasure for the reader. To put the point in clear terms he sublimates emotions and offers aesthetic pleasures to the readers. So his poems have rather the value of a piece of creative literature than of mere emotions. He possesses a direct insight into reality .That’s why he is able to describe reality so vividly to us .

In fine “REFLECTIONS”, is a collection of short poems which set the readers imagination ablaze with lyrical fragrance. His poems are all realistic which serve as the yardstick to measure poetic talent. Moreover these short poems of him definitely reveal that he has a redefined and charming soul, a noble and amicable nature. Those who read his poems with devotion will certainly praise the qualities of his head and heart. What I observed and found in his poems is that realism does not lie in the themes of his poems whereas it has been brought out through his magic of writing. He has expressed in his poems a noble Philosophy and it is the study of that philosophy that one should read this collection of poems, with a seeing eye and an understanding eye.

I personally feel proud that I got an opportunity to express my sincere opinions about the poetry of Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy in the form of a FORWARD to his collections of poems entitled, “REFLECTIONS”.

I think that I am really BLESSED !

- Dr. K. G. Kulkarni

Outlet

A Poetic Flow of Thoughts

Worldwide Circulation through Authorspress Global Network
First Published in 2019
A Poetic Flow of Thoughts
ISBN 978-93-88008-*–
Copyright © 2019 T. Ashok Chakravarthy

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers :(Outlet)

Dr. Maria Eugenia Soberanis, MEXICO
Dr. María Eugenia Soberanis

It is a honor for me to write about our, since many years ago, dear friend Ashok Chakravarthy. A distinguished poet, many times laureated, with so many prizes won during his traveling through the paths of poetry. He was also being awarded with the highest honor by the World Academy of Arts and Culture / World Congress of Poets (UNESCO). Mr. Chakravarthy is a proper gentleman, he’s also a quiet and observer person, always heeled and attentive.

For this new book, Outlet: A Poetic Flow of Thoughts he has chosen the most proper title for it, because it is just as he says. He has collected in this book all the themes which he cares most and that are those who worry the humanity. In his case, he can rest of trying to find a way for the world’s problems and more over the lack of spiritual growth of those who have the real power in the world, which is the real cause of so many indescribable acts.

We can say Mr. Chakravarthy’s thoughts are basically nature, war, peace, poets, materialism and selfishness. Of course as a poet cannot let stand by love, in both cases, when one is living it in fullness as when it seems to leave us in a dark hole, but he emphasizes it as a collective feeling as he says: “The Potion of Love is an answer to every solution”

He often goes to travel to his past, through his memories in different stages of his life, what he misses most is his precious childhood with his cherished mother to whom he dedicates some beautiful poems in this book, and he even starts it with one of them. How not to be moved when he confesses he is “the fountain of his delight”, the one who unfolds “the visión of truth”. Or you may take this: “Yes, whenever I sense drifting in the dark / Mother You appear like an angelic spark / Yes, you always remain in the iris of my eyes/, forever you glow in my inner heart skies.”

His memories are a very common theme in our dear poet, the different stages of life have a very important meaning to him as we can see when he writes: “The fleeting years traverse the life’s path / Unfolding a track of life meaning and myth” in his poem FleetingYears.

“Childhood to youth and middle age to old-age / We guess, we treaded new paths at every stage; / But, when self-realization really dawns in heart / We realize; real path of life is not walked as yet.” This is another example of his regressions. I even dare to say that he reviews his different life’s periods to find and understand his present, as he is a pensative man.

About nature: “My heart aches with a pain of new sort; / I try to visualize lives, wrapped in dark / Whose survival depends on hope’s spark.” These lines tell us how deep his concern is about nature, as well as for the other important world problems, and we inevitably fill his sorrow and make us reflect about it. This is his way to raise awareness about nature: “Everyday, the earth is getting more sodden / Not with rain, but with tears of humans”

Mr. Chakravarthy calls for a change of human mind with desperation in his poem “You and I” written for U.N. in International Mother Earth’s Day. In his poem “Nature” he wonders: “Is this what the Mother Earth deserves?”

Poet Chakravarthy comes to compare mother’s love with mother earth: “Evaluate the love of ‘mother earth’ / With that of a mother’s care and faith, / By all means both are precious and noble / Apart, both are selfless and sacrificial.”

About peace: “United, we feel the thunder of harmony / To dispel the fears of hunger and agony; / United, we realize the wonders of peace”

Our poet has his opinion about this work, about which he ponders: “A frill without ink has no significance / A pen without ink has no importance, /A single glance changes the mindset /‘cause it can seduce any human plight.

We may say that Mr. Chakravarthy seems desperate at moments in his seeking for a solution without a clear result, he becomes anguished and he can’t, or maybe he doesn’t want to hide his great concern, we can notice this in several poems such as: “Let Human Spirit Prevail” in which he claims: hear!, where is peace?, where is love?, Humans!, How shame!

No more clear his idea of materialism in this new book, that in the poem: “Where there’s greed there’s grief”, about money.

After Reading the worries of our poet, he seems to reconcile with hope and faith and he waits for a spiritual awakening in, for example: “Without Which” or “Time and Life”: these releases the readers to think that not all is pain and suffering and the author believes it.

There are so many things to say about this book, where the author falls in the temptation to rhyme sometimes in some of his texts, which are direct, reflexives, not abusing of metaphors. But let there be a dense joy, an intimate poetry as well as the social and nature’s concerns of a man of our times who doesn’t settle with what is going on in our world and appeals to his good skills to try to awake men’s consciousness.

Dr. María Eugenia Soberanis, MEXICO

* General Secretary WAAC/WCP, Honorary President of UHEM, Vice President SIPEA, Mexico City, Mexico
Dr. Kairat Duissenov Parman, KAZAKHSTAN
Foreword TO “Outlet”
a bard of high imagination and truth

Kairat Duissenov Parman

I have my deep associations with Mr. Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana – for the past several years; I found his poetry the blend of high imagination and truth. The first poem that I read was about Mother which made me think deeply about my own mother, about women, and about all mothers in the world. I remembered the earliest childhood when I first saw my own mother; I remembered her beautiful eyes, full of love and affection. I remembered my love for my mother and infinite delight and her warm, kind words that she used to say for me. I remember how her smart acts made me comfortable by taking care of me. It was the magic of his poetic diction that led me to past and revived the age of deep associations in my mind and I relished that period in dotage again, perhaps it is the function and magic of poetry. While going through his poem I felt as if he represents my sentiments and thoughts, I had to confess that his writes are about Truth. He pen inscribes true love for the whole humanity and all human relations in the world.

He has a new approach to express the voice of his conscience, very effectively; it is on account of his style his thoughts penetrate direct into the heart of a reader. His poetry indeed is a fountain of delight. A Kazakh poet Shakarim Kudaiberdiuly writes that every person should think at least once about his life, “Where I come from, how I should act so that it is useful for me and what will happen to me when I leave this world.” the poems of my colleague Mr. Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana just confirm that idea. Despite, the differences of faith and race as well as folk of customs, always think of the Creator. We thought of the Creator even when our society was not ruled by the divine laws. As a poet, I feel that we all poets and writers think of Him very often and even in each of our breath, especially, when we come to God's trial in life. Conscious awareness of God’s presence in poetry of Ashok is more prevalent that makes his work a guiding source for the fellow beings.

The consequence of our emotional attitude often entangle us into conflicts but Ashok poetry resolves the confusion by teaching that life itself is not a mere destination, it is rather a pause in the journey to the destination. Outwardly, we may not, but inwardly we possess some invisible power and between these indistinguishable dualities, there exists God, with inconceivable realities. He praises God’s power, His Majesty, in the best possible way and makes a clear analysis of His actions. He is a poet, diverse in his new work, his style does not let his reader sit still and become bored and suspense prevails in his lines from beginning to the end. In his every poetic line his breath is felt as if the poet himself breathes, his work is instilled with love and spiritual power. He has a very vital bond at the same time with creature and creator. ‘And with true ideals of compassion, Bind yourself with love and passion, To usher an eternal Global Harmony… ’ he has given to humanity, his many years of creativity; it has turned his commitment into a treasure for the people and world of literature. I think that Ashok Chakravarti Tholana has rendered his role and his devotion to poetry made him a perennial figure in the world of literature and many will be inspired by him in the world of future.

Kairat Duissenov Parman, KAZAKHSTAN.

* Poet, Composer, Journalist, Winner of the International Literary Prize IWA Bogdani (Belgium), Winner of International Literary Prize ‘Master of Poetry’ of the IPU ‘League of Lira’, ‘Founder of World Nations Writers Union, Kazakhstan.
Muhamad Shanazar, PAKISTAN
Preface

Muhamad Shanazar

Poetry since beginning has been associated with divinity and now it is an established fact that thoughts come from the greater divine mind and they nestle in a sensitive unsullied mind and after having been nurtured they rush to the heart, get tinges of emotions, the poet clad them with costumes of words and they come out gloriously in a powerful flow, they pertain more to heart, therefore, they strike on the heart of a reader. The words in fact merely are not the dead stuff, they carry along images which a poet crafts with similes and metaphors, they get shapes, forms, colours and tastes and these all ingredients of poetry collectively affect both, the reader’s mind and heart.

My heart is stupendously laden with gratitude for the modern technology that has brought us close though we live on the opposite poles of the world. My first virtual meeting with Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy happened almost fifteen years ago, during the communication, being lucky enough I had an opportunity to go through his poetic work and I could not help considering him my guide and mentor in my own remaining poetic journey. His poetry as I feel is charged with potent emotions and thoughts that is why it cuts its own route to reach the heart of a reader and consequently molds, shapes and reshapes as the poet wishes. Poetry of T. Ashok Chakravarthy has all traits, features and liniments of greatness that make any work perennial. In his poem ‘Survival and Revival’ he vividly refers to the entities of Man and God, he rightly says that Man is not the same as He appears, human existence is very much complicated, it is a combination of outer-self and inner-self, they are in fact two entities which at the same time relate to the world terrestrial and extra-terrestrial and presence of God is somewhere in between, such a thought as human existence and existence of God, purely seats on spiritual experience, therefore, Ashok Chakravarthy in these lines himself reveals his hidden entity that is Mystic Ashok Chakravarthy:

Outwardly, we are not what we really are
But inwardly we possess some invisible power;
Betwixt these indistinguishable dualities,
There exists God, with inconceivable realities.

No doubt by nature and temperament T. Ashok Chakravarthy bears noble righteous soul that always yearns for peace, his heart gurgles love indiscriminately for all human beings, I regard him a great pacifist and advocate of global harmony, no doubt he has already got himself established as a towering campaigner of peace in the contemporary world that is why he pays homage to those who render their lives for peace:

Salutations to those
Who relentlessly work for peace
Risking their life for ‘universal peace ’.
………………………………………………
Salutations to those
Who strive for environment protection
For the sake of ‘future generations’.
1. Ashok Chakravarthy has the strongest faith in poets and men of letters that they are the real asset of the world who can play an effective role to make the world better and it is the fundamental function of poetry to lead humanity to the better world.
A luxurious and gorgeous life
Cannot impart a righteous idea,
A lavish and ego-bloated life
Cannot implant a humane spirit;
But, a poet by heart is emotive
………………………………………….
By outlook, a poet is very simple
By living, tries to set a live example
By leading a life, too very simple
But by writings, proves a real mettle
.

Man in his life runs after illusions, T. Ashok Chakravarthy in his poetry is very conscious about the transitory phases of life, each phase has its own glory but when life moves ahead, the previous phase merges into memory, the deemed reality changes into shadow but the mid-age illuminates the mind and brings a man out of hallucinations and reality whether bitter or palatable begins to enlighten itself:

Mid-age, the age of illumination
Slowly unfolds the veil of illusions,
The volume of mirror reflections
Reel before eyes in a fit of emotion..
1. Ashok Chakravarthy is despised of the leading heads of humanity who usurp political powers to lengthen their rule and have least interest in rectification of the absurdities in vogue, at the same time he has firm faith in reformative potential of poetry and believes in that to make the world a better worth-living place, better denizens are required and this function only and only can be accomplished by poets and poetry:
Yes, poetry can uphold the human ideals
Can project the ills of social fragmentation
Can oust the recurring segments of violence
Can repulse the blurred borders of hatred
Can enlighten the plight of the downtrodden
Can spread the threat of ecological erosion
Can explore the violation of children’s rights
Can expose the dangers of growing illiteracy
Can strengthen the pillars of peace process
Can extend the arms of love and concern
Can nurse the wounds of distress and distrust
Can pave a way to repose faith on co-humans
Can dispel darkness from the sucked dark lives

Like every sensitive poet, T. Ashok Chakravarthy sometimes becomes nostalgic and takes refuge in his past memories by recalling beauties of nature which are inseparable ties of his childhood, but even then he is not an escapist:

I recollect nectarine youthful days, awesome
How joyfully the pairs of birds flew back home,
The fading flowers in the garden of my heart
Feel, new lease of life surge in my heart’s heart;
I forgot, it was my mid-age anguish thought.

Much can be said about T. Ashok Chakravarthy’s poetry, it is the an onus of the critics to delve and explore more and more the hidden recess of his great work, I since long have devised my critical opinion that his poetry bears much more literary significance than often commonly deemed, his style is aphoristic, in a few words or lines he has an habit of expressing cumbersome themes but very subtly, his poetic thoughts from beginning to the end flows like a soundless smooth stream. I recommend that his poetry must be included in the reading curriculum at least at degree and master levels; I wish for him more success.

Muhamad Shanazar, PAKISTAN

^*Poet in Residence, The International Best Translator Prize 2012, Poet of the World, Cross for Peace, Cross for Literature, First Four Stars Ambassador, Poet of Universal Inspiration, World Icon of Peace, Ambassador of Justice & Peace, World Laureate in Literature 2017, Pride of Globe 2017, Poetic Galaxy Award, Extra-Ordinary Ambassador for Gratis Culture, Honorary Doctorate in Humanitarian Education, Ambassador De Literature, one of the Top Six Writers of the World, World Icon of Literature, Lit. Ambassador of Humanity, Noble Star of Literature 2018, World’s Most Motivational Writer Award.
Ms. Blanca Salcedo Formosa, ARGENTINA
FOREWORD

Ms. Blanca Salcedo Formosa

To get to know another culture is a hard task. A task which demands to involve the hearth and hands to play with differences and similarities. To gaze into the poetic unfold is a very delicate and complex enterprise. The poet from India, Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana’s verses please the universal soul and I strongly believe and aspire, we share our profound conviction in the equality of all human beings and in our faith that all false walls which divide us should be abolished.
The true poet is a being who abandons all adornments to leave in paper a soul which is sincere and truthful. That is Ashok in his dealing with the themes of love and peace, destruction and preservation of the planet and solitude with a permanent plea to his readers to find the true path which can define a possible and more beautiful future.
In his poems Ashok questions the passing of time. A time in where occasionally he retuns to his childhood and youth, as a cry for lost times and loves which once were. Beautiful contradictions between the past and the present which evidence a poet who can use words to express a hearth beating with its own sounds.
The future emerges out of his concerns with the big themes of the planet’s preservation, war and destruction, social integration, child protection and the preservation of mother earth, issues at the center of his poetic concerns, recognized by the literary establishment.
The poet tells us:

“Entangled in the traps of the materialistic world /
... life is not a mere destiny for happiness”

and those verses aptly paint their universe, the commitment that has assumed before itself and its congeners.
“Yes, poetry can defend human ideals /
... reject the blurred borders of hatred”,
Ashok uses poety as a sword to attack the reality which hurts him, arming himself with words, his shield for repudiating all avarice and violence. Returning to the image of isolation. Ashok feels isolated from the world, and like in a circle returns to the past, where his childhood flowers in his mother’s hands, in beautiful images which flow…
“Without any respite
Isolation hunts me
as if I was trying...”
or, in another poem:
“Alone, I feel totally eclipsed in isolation,
Pain penetrates deeply into the layers of heart
Without realizing it, thoughts are hidden in the clouds of fear”
And so his poetry becomes, oscillating between the uneasiness, the should be, the despair and the reinforcement of his spirit and his faith, to continue planting the word before a world that seeks destruction.
It remains to say that every finished poem represents one more step that every reader can give, moving towards a spiritual totality, this contribution of the poet is his most important achievement. That is the reason why they are invited to this universe of Ashok, in its infinite alternation, which points its heart towards a horizon of hope where it expects a better world than the conflicting moment that we have built. .. that hope that we share, in the conviction that, when the written word is read, a seed of light is sown in the future that will flourish in a unit of positive human vibration. So I leave you with some verses as expressive as revelers:
“The bird of thoughts, take a look,
perhaps bewildered by my innocence.”

Blanca Salcedo
ARGENTINA

Chariot Of Musings

After the success of earlier book, the ‘Chariot Of Musings ‘ was more successful with poet-lovers commending around the world. A soul-stirring collection of poems…

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Book releasing CM Rajasekhara Reddy, popularly known as YSR, was the 14th chief minister of Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, serving from 2004 to 2009.

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers :(Chariot Of Musings)

K.V. RAMANA CHARY, IAS, COMMISSIONER

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FOREWORDS CHARIOT OF MUSINGS, K.V. RAMANA CHARY, IAS,
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Executive Director

Foundation Activities : Research, Library and Information Services, Seminars, Free School Uniform & Text Books, Award to the Rank & First Class Students / Graduates / Post Graduates, Counseling

FOREWORD

I studies with great attention and deep delight the wonderful poem book.

The collection of poems book is educationally useful, culturally relevant, academically sound, socially acceptable, psychologically meaningful, pedagogically helpful, philosophically admirable, historically excellent, and scientifically beautiful and no doubt, it is impressive, interesting, informative, inspiring, appealing and above all thought provoking.

Poet T. Ashok Chakravarthy’s collection is one that should be read in a calm frame of mind. Each thought is to be savored, each tortured emotion is to be turned over and over in the reader’s mind, in order to get the full flower of this offering.

This interesting collection of poems by Scholar, Mr. Ashok Chakravarthy focuses attention on the present appalling state of affairs in the country.

I compliment the poet for his erudition and for his fine collection of poems, which I have enjoyed reading. I am sure, other readers will find this collection equally enjoyable.

DR. P. GANESH
M.A., FUWAI, Ph.D., S.Sc
Professor of Sociology
KGF Law College
TAKE LIFE AS IT COMES TO YOU
Ramnik Mehta
Prof. and Head (Retd)
Department of English,
N.A Arts Collge
S.P University
VALLABH VIDYANAGAR
Gujarat, INDIA

FOREWORD

This serves to express my joy and a sense of honor to write the Foreword for my fellow poet T. Ashok Chakravarthy. I quote, “Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends”. How true is the second part of the quote. Ashok and I met at Bombay Airport on our way to IASI, Tomania, to attend World Congress of Poets convention and have been buddies since then.

T. Ashok Chakravarthy writes but feel imprisoned in his own fort waiting for another theme to sneak and sow a seed. He is determined to write even though thoughts fail to confince him. But he struggles unceasingly on a steep un-imaginative domain. His mind is flooded with “too many thoughts / so many themes / some delightful / some mournful”. His thoughts do make merry rounds.

T. Ashok Chakravarthy seems to be speaking of himself. Here he is entrapped in the reminiscences of his childhood; there he is ready to opt to see The Other Part of life embedded in gloom; now he is happy, looking at nature, ‘the dawn peeps and his heart creeps”, then his heart goes to the downtrodden, the orphans, the illiterates, the children abused and neglected; and yet

He has to write, write and highlight
The pitiable, emotive and hunger’s plight
With a hope, some hearts in can soften.

To him, life is a cluster of knots / a future of unexplored destiny. Ups and Downs pester him and he seeks another part of Inner Life

The worn out curtain
in my room around
Greet me in silence.
Perhaps, they know
I too am a companion
Who match their stature.

This is how I know T. Ashok. The poems published in vast number of magazines speak louder than what I may write. A critic is a legless man who teaches running and I don’t want to be legless. To quote Dr. Johnson: “A fly, Sir, may I sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect and the other is a horse still”. So, neither do I wish to be an insect.

I wish, Ashok shall, as he promises us in one of his Poem “never look back / keep on marching / opt for a positive thinking / to achieve something”.

Ramnik Mehta

WE HAVE ONE LIFE TO LIVE – THIS I

Charismata Of Poesie

Made a maiden entry into poetry through ‘Charismata Of Poesie’. Selected poems on various subjects, with the much needed boost ….

This book is dedicated in found memory of my beloved parents — Charismata Of Poesie

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (CHARISMATA OF POESIE)

Shri Mandal Bijoy Beg Orissa, INDIA
T. Ashok Chakravarthy’s - CHARISMATA OF POESIE
(a collection of poems)

We have the pleasure of reading the poetry of T. Ashok Chakravarthy (TAC) for the last 4 years. His poems have given us joy of studying various moods and encounters of the author’s life. He is a poet par excellence!

One cannot be a poet f he or she is not either in happiness or in pain. TAC is more a poet of pain than happiness. ‘A Spell of Despair’, ‘An Accursed’, ‘Bread-winner’s Woe’, ‘Crumbled Dreams’, ‘Desolate Night’, ‘Silent Agony’, ‘Doomed Love’, ‘Healing Wounds’, ‘The Lonely Time’ and many others are poem of pain. Words like ‘agony’, ‘despair’, ‘dejection’, ‘frustration’, ‘grief’, ‘gloom’, ‘mourning’, ‘pain’, ‘solitude’, ‘sorrow’ and ‘suffering’ clearly indicate the theme of his poems. At night his “Thoughts fluctuate from one end to the other / In the woven webs of grief and despondency”. He retrospects on ‘the very roots of the woe-filled past’. He feels his life is ‘injured’ and the struggles ‘in turbulent moods’. He writes, ‘In the stormy desert of pain / Feared, I think, I lost my path’. His ‘heart writhes with pain’ and he is ‘on the volcano of dejection’.

The poet has also deep concern for the suffering humanity. He is the one to whom the world (A world of ‘contamination’, ‘devastation’, ‘penury’ and ‘starvation’) is his own; and so he is suffering.

The poet knows that the castle of joy is in pain and pain is the wit of joy. Every man lives suffering but his life becomes an ocean of joy who endures pain happily and stoically.

Written in lucid language, the book is a collection of ‘the sweetest songs’ that speak of ‘saddest thoughts’.

We wish this book will find appreciation of all lovers of poetry worldwide.

Shri Mandal Bijoy Beg, Director,
The Home of Letters,
Bhubaneswar, Orissa, INDIA

Twinkles

(A collection of poems)

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Twinkles)

Bodo Vespaciano,(Cuban origin), USA

A foreword by Bodo Vespaciano
(A Cuban origin Poet-Artist, U.S.A)

To arm our love, and ensure that it lives on forever, in other words, to safeguard a world of beauty, wisdom, duty and peace for the benefit of our children, our posterity, we should understand, first and foremost, that we are warriors in a struggle for survival…we have been engaged in battle. We have been forced, by those who hate and destroy, to fight in order to defend our values, our principles, our truth, which we consider to be Universal Truth…we have not invented this “truth”, and we have not shaped it or molded it to fit our designs. We, the ones who love, surely have applied ourselves to serve the Almighty and by doing so, we have followed the path of that invariable reality…

Rarely have I encountered, in my quests, artists, writers, musicians or poets who focus on the elementary, who cling to reality and who are willing to fight for the survival and ultimate triumph of those who love…

Few times have I had the joy of reading a collection of poems that have enlightened me and that have fulfilled my need to know, to profoundly understand that love can be a force, and not only an idyllic emotion that serves beauty.…LOVE is a revolutionary concept in the world today…yet, I am not saying that Dr. Ashok is a revolutionary, but that he is a Revolutionary, and his poetry shows it…I sincerely believe that he understands, as well as I do, that art is a weapon. Tholana has recognised that his love, for the human race, for the planet, for the Universe, for the Almighty, has to be armed so that those who hate cannot overwhelm it with their malice…My good friend from Hyderabad, India, has proven, with this, his FOURTH collection of inspiring poetry, that a battle can be a beautiful thing if it is fought with poetry, with words powerful enough to reach the soul and effect a positive change in humanity…

For me, to arm our love…a concept that perhaps is novel and that many may not fully understand…can be defined and can be explained in one phrase: Love is the motivation, the force that guides…but hate is also a strong motivator, another force that lamentably guides many others…there exists, then, confrontation…so, we, those that love, must be ready to arm our philosophy, arm our resistance to hate…for we do not look at LOVE as simply an emotion, a feeling shared by two people in bliss, we look at love as a guide, a lifestyle…I can see that for Dr. Ashok, poetry is a weapon, words are mightier than the sword, as it has been stated for centuries…in reading his new poetry collection, TWINKLES, I came to the immediate realisation that he is a man who understands the principles of love and also understands that such a revolutionary force has to be armed for its protection.

Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy, is a man who grew up in a modest house, sharing his life with brothers and sisters…he was educated, he is engaged in gainful employment, he lives life, provides for his family, and he writes…his objective, in his own words, is “simple living and high thinking”…he says that it made him what he is today…I am very proud to count him as a friend, a comrade, and I am blessed to have been able to read and ponder upon his poetry, which is his soul, bared for the world to know, for all to understand, and for me to admire…

Tholana is fascinated by spirituality, by philosophy…those are two of the mightiest weapons in the arsenal of those who love…I believe, and I have no doubt that Dr. Ashok will most certainly agree with me, that, we are not all the same under God’s blue skies…we are not the same as those who would use weapons of mass destruction, we are not the same as those who would utilise a car-bomb and drive it into a crowd of people at a market place…we are not the same as those who would incarcerate others and torture them and humiliate them…we are not the same as those who do not tolerate religious differences, lifestyle differences, economical differences…we are not the same as those who sustain systems of government and economics that do not provide justly and equally for all their citizens, we are different from those that advocate heartless super capitalism to the detriment of the majority of their citizenry, those that do not have health care, housing, education or the basic food items necessary to avoid malnutrition and disease…No! We are not all the same…We, those who love, reject and shun these practices, we reject evil…those who love, strive and work to develop a planet free of such iniquities…those who love are a species threatened with extinction and we realise that those who hate are gaining strength in numbers because they control the media, the news, and, therefore, the life of many. They neither have the time nor the energy to philosophically understand their plight and the danger that they face, and the danger that they place us all in…

Dr. Ashok, as a Revolutionary, has created for people a glimpse of love and the importance that we all must recognise that we have to protect that love with all our heart. His previous books, CHARISMATA OF POESIE, THE CHARIOT OF MUSINGS, SERENE THOUGHTS, I do believe, have led him along the path, and have brought him to this new threshold, this new book, wherein he writes:

“…poetry is a reliable weapon
which can soften any situation,
an effort, I craft on my own
to spread the message of unification.”
(fragment from “POETIC HARMONY”)

Tholana is a poet-person who looks forward…his compositions began back in his teen years, and over SIX hundred of them have appeared in international literary magazines…he loves music, jazz, the sounds of the drums, the flutes, and the thrill of a good science fiction movie…filled with fantasy, filled with poetry…therefore he can write in his new book words such as:

“Humanity is butchered on the streets
the thought of love and brotherhood;
seem buried and bulldozed in hearts.
The enemy within, be totally eliminated.”
(fragment from “WITHOUT SELFISH MOTIVES”)

I know a warrior when I meet one, and one with such weapons is one who I will always admire…I am delighted to have been able to say a few words about this poet, this member of the army of those who love, and I am touched by having read his words…

PEACE
Bodo, U.S.A

Horizon

My new book with this lovely outlook

Horizon of Poetic Twinkles Paperback – 2020

a collection of nearly 100 thoughtful poems is now available at
a collection of nearly 100 thoughtful poems is now available at

Forewords by eminent poet-luminaries (1) Mr. Patrick Sammut, REPUBLIC OF MALTA (2) Mrs. Pushpalatha Ramakrishnan, INDIA (3) Ms. Corina Junghiatu, ROMANIA + Blurbs by Prof. Emeritus DR. ERNESTOKAHAN, ISRAEL & Mr. CIJO JOSEPH CHENNELIL, Kerala, INDIA

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Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Horizon)

Patrick Sammut, Republic of Malta

HORIZON OF POETIC TWINKLES:
SOME REFLECTIONS
Patrick Sammut,
Republic of Malta

Dr. Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana and I have been friends
through internet for many years, thanks to our common interest,
Poetry. For years, many from all over the world, have regularly
received and appreciated his poetry, through his printed books,
but especially through the net.
The poet, like every human being, has a narrative to recount. Dr.
A Chakravarthy Tholana’s narrative in this new collection of
poetry – his eighth one, with 100 poems in all – can be divided
into five main sections: the existential poet; the eco-poet, or the
poet as an ecologist; the peace poet; the social poet; and, the self-
reflective poet. Stylistically, Dr. A. Chakravarthy Tholana prefers
the traditional forms, especially quatrains, with rhyming
couplets, as one of his favourite rhyming schemes. The reader
shall be cherishing poetry both as a play on words, and sound
poetry through alliterations, assonances, mono-rhymes, and
what have you.

The Existential Poet: As a human being, Ashok Chakravarthy
Tholana writes about the here and now, or his presence in the
real world. In It Dawns as Usual, he recounts and sings about
past and present ups and downs, personal experiences such as
childhood, village life, love, and actual moments of despair. All
this is delivered through a particular lexical register: “petals”,
“ocean”, “greenery”, “hills” and “meadows.” Poetry is here
presented as painting or photography. Poetry and philosophy
move hand in hand in Chakravarthy Tholana’s verse. In Fleeting
Time we read: “Facing upheavels and travails/ In ‘the boat of
time’, life travels. “Life’s Big Miss reminds us that the poet is a
being who feels both homesick and conscious of “the fleeting
time and the advancing age.” An inner feeling of his is that of
being caught “between... two shores”: his home town where
there is bliss on the one hand, and the city where he works for
his daily bread on the other.

The Eco Poet: As an eco-poet Chakravarthy Tholana’s plea is
against the destruction of key natural areas on our globe, such as
the Amazon Rainforest. If We Fail to Confront This is a
reminder that all humanity is responsible for such devastation.
Prosper with Nature is about animal extinction, deforestation,
and destruction of nature. The poet cautions that “Nature is
bound to unleash its fury in the future” if human beings
continue with such conduct. Thus, his plea is: “Let the world
prosper with nature without any rift.”

The Peace Poet: Although what we read here are the verses of a
poet who is always conscious that “The world is a mere
decoration of delusions” (The Peace Space) and “the world is a
spectacle of illusions”, what really Chakravarthy Tholana does
through his poetry is inviting us to world peace. In Ushering in a
New Dawn the word “peace” is repeated twenty times within
the space of twenty four lines. In A Poet’s Vision... we also read
that the poet is a being of foresight, the pen being his only
weapon. The poet’s duty is “To spread equal love and generosity,
/ To arouse humane instinct in humans.”
Knowing that the world is at the same time “painful and
adorable”, in, Pray the Creator Chakravarthy Tholana prays to
“boost the human conscience”, to “implant human-trust,
mutual”, to “rouse mercy in human thoughts” and to oust
“human self-centric mind”. Apart from education, love is the
other antidote to hate and disharmony: in You are Someone we
are reminded that no man is an island and that humans survive
thanks to love, just as fire survives thanks to firewood.
The Social Poet: Chakravarthy Tholana is no dreamer, and thus
his are poems of protest against selfishness, wars, self-inflicted
pain, child abuse, general apathy, violence, materialism and
inequality. (With a True Delight) Many of his poems take the
form of a call for humanity’s transformation from “self-centric”
to one “cautioned by veiled inner-self.” (For Joy Eternal) Service
to Humanity is Service to God showcases the poet as a moral
being, a spokesman of truth, justice, love, hope and charity. Key
lines in this poem are: “Real bliss and ultimate contentment of
life / Rests in rendering service to humans in grief”. At Who’s
Behest is about a substantial part of India’s reality: slum areas,
famine, poverty, and the orphans’ desperate struggle for food.
The Cry of a Street Child is about loneliness, hunger and more
despair (“My dust laden body, torn clothes and sunk eyes”).
Children need “parental caring” not “suffering”! A similar poem
is For a Child Forever Is... where Chakravarthy Tholana stresses
the importance of the mother as giver of love, wisdom and light.
For the poet of the present collection the man in “tattered
clothes, feeble body”, “Imparts to one and all, a fitting lesson /
To rid ourselves from selfish motives / Lest, we cannot fulfil
life’s objectives.” And in Chakravarthy Tholana’s mindset, life’s
objectives are the achievement of unity, charity, dignity,
solidarity, security, nobility, amity, equality, all emphatically
recurring words in his poetry.
Education is a key tool against social degeneration. Thus, Pages
of Learning Books is a tribute to teachers as groomers of our
minds, enemies of ignorance, mentors, and “light of
knowledge... of wisdom.” The poetry in this collection
encourages the reader “to break the shackles of ignorance / To
realize the true purpose of life’s relevance” (Unless We Realize),
and to find again “the bliss of self-vision... truth and realization”
(Truth and Realization).

The Self-Reflective Poet: Chakravarthy Tholana is also an
ambassador of Poetry. Mantle of Peace is about the benefits of
poetry, understood as a “mighty weapon” against death and
destruction, “a balm, a peace-filled nectar”. Indeed, in It Is the
Poet, the latter is perceived as “saviour” and an envoy of all
“acts of humanitarian nature”; here the conviction that
“poetry... changes the human mood” is supreme. The poet is
conceived as a supreme being, standing in a privileged position,
in the sense that he lives both amongst the people and at the
same time is like an all-seeing eye reflecting on various facets
that are part of humankind’s everyday life. The poet is privileged
also because his priority is not survival, but reflection. He is a
reflecting Self, omniscient and omnipresent – see When I Look
Deeper -, his gaze noting every outer detail (“dried-up leaves...
Fall to the ground”; “birds in their nests”) and inner emotion
and suffering (“unknown fear[s]”). Incite the Mind is a powerful
poem. Chakravarthy Tholana emphasises that, “Poetic
thoughts/ ignite,/ implant,/ Inflate,/ invent,/ Inject,/ Induct/
And incite the mind.”

Conclusion: This is a collection of poetry not to be read all at
once, but to be gradually savoured day by day, like an excellent
bottle of wine. Let us however remember that although the poet
of this present collection is conscious of the many
disappointments we as human beings face in life, his remain
poems of optimism and hope. Thus, his poems, read day by day,
will certainly generate in us readers a sense of positive vibes,
respect and unity with both humanity and the universe. In
Upright Thoughts Chakravarthy Tholana writes about the power
of words: “they possess real value and power” and “Every
powerful word related with life / Does act like a potion to
transform life”. (The Potent Words) Such “potent words” and
words of transformation remind us of the unforgettable speeches
made by former peace gurus such as Ghandi, Mother Therese,
Martin Luther King Jr., and Pope John Paul II in their relentless
plight against hatred, racism, nationalisms and war. Dr. Ashok
Chakravarthy Tholana’s narrative in Horizon of Poetic Twinkles is
also one which invites us readers to stop for sporadic moments
during our rushing day to reflect about what really makes
human beings tick: essentially one race, inhabiting the same
space, all of us off springs of a Mother who (for our own sake)
rightfully demands our care, attention and respect.

March 2020

Patrick Sammut
Republic of Malta
Mrs. Pushpalatha Ramakrishnan, India
FOREWORD

Mrs. Pushpalatha Ramakrishnan,
Tamil Nadu

This book, Horizon of Poetic Twinkles written by Ashok
Chakravarthy Tholana seems to be a masterpiece bestowed upon
Mankind for all are living in a state of restlessness, always on the
move to attain the highest position, no time to think about the
ailing humanity. At such a crisis all are graced by the
composition made by the eminent poet Ashok Chakravarthy
Tholana. The book appears to be very emotive and emphatic as
well. Though it abounds with autographic elements, it seems to
be elevating the soul and even enhancing the minds of all
towards peace and enlightenment and transport all into the
world of bliss.
The poet is probing into the depth of his heart and pondering
over the past. When the poet opens the window, he notices the
school children, walking past meadows. He is taken back to the
past, his childhood days, his mother's love and the changes
grabbing him into the stage of adolescence, the days when he is
enticed with the petals of love and the days his love being
snapped up.
At times he seems to be very philosophical when he sees the
selfish world which he often visualizes; it is vying for supremacy
over others. He insists on the positive approach to anything with
a clear vision which sets everything right. From the start to the
finish of the book, the poet pleads for peace and aspires to
maintain harmony at home and country.
He appears to be a lover of Nature for he loves the environment
very much. In the poem ‘Amazon Rain Forest Fires’, he raises a
hue of cry against deforestation and sincerely wishes all to
safeguard the ecosystem well. Another most remarkable poem is
‘Why Don't We Respond’, which brings out the state of the
miserable children. Being full of sympathy, he feels very sad to
see their plight. He wants all to make a response to the alarming
conditions of the kids.
He often dreams about a day when humanity is to be awakened.
He hopes for such a day when love and kindness flow like a
serene river. As a socialist, he wants all barriers on the basis of
caste, creed and religion to be removed and to establish a sense
of common brotherhood among all. Sometimes he seems to be
highly philosophical for he passes through the evolution of
thought. He observes how everyone is caught-up in the
materialistic world, hankering after materialistic pleasures. He
always listens to the inner voice to attain peace. Just like him he
wants all to get benefitted. His observation of life in the poem ‘A
Righteous Will’ depicts the spinning of life into a pool of
delusions which reveals our thirst for materialistic pleasures. At
such a critical state the poet comes forward to affirm that the
only determination to follow the Righteous Will alone shall
confer us with success.
As a serious thinker, he raises his voice against the ailing
humanity. The power for supremacy is the factor which makes
countries vie with one another to ride on human debris. As a
lover of humanity, he pleads for mercy, for love, and for concern
which alone can transform the alarming condition of the world.
A short analysis of all his poems shows how he propagates
peace. Most of the poems signify the need to spread peace to
maintain harmony at home and at the world as a whole. He feels
proud of singing that "I am poetry, yearn to prophecy the
Universal Truth". The poet frankly admits how the memory of
the fond love that helps him to unravel the mystery in his mind
and pave a way to become a prolific poet.
The review of all his poems shows the compassion he has for the
homeless children, the need to maintain eco-balance, the
necessity to maintain peace to enter into a new Era.
The quintessential ingredient of life is supposed to be positivity
which has been the underlying statement of his poems too. The
earnest request made on his part to free helpless children from
violence and exploitation is worthy to be noted. The pledge for
child care and protection shows the unconditional love he has
for the homeless children. I am very happy to see the traits of
goodness, kindness, immeasurable love for the mass and Nature
too in all his poems. Wish his poetry flutter and speak of peace
and truth across the world. I recommend HORIZON be read by
children at schools, students at colleges and universities.

Mrs. Pushpalatha Ramakrishnan
Poet – Writer Singampuneri
Tamil Nadu, India
Corina Junghiatu, Romania
FOREWORD

Corina Junghiatu,
Romania

The exceptional quill of Dr. Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana is
addressed to all lovers of peace, unity and knowledge, being
himself an impetuous promoter of these values. The author
generously gives us, in his 8th volume of poetry, titled, Horizon of
Poetic Twinkles, the essence of the good, of the knowledge and
new horizons for accessing these gems. Often we find in this
volume the phrase "light of knowledge", his poems being,
without exception, a reflection of the light of knowledge.
Speaking about Dr. Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana, is a gifted
poet, writer and reviewer from Hyderabad city, Telangana State,
India, whose message-centric poems got published in no less
than 90 countries across the world. He’s conferred with several
prestigious, national and international awards, that include five
doctorates and quite a lot of laurels, commendations, citations
and titles for his prolific poetry contribution in promoting
Universal Peace, World Brotherhood, Environment
Consciousness, Protection of Nature, Safeguarding Children
Rights, Promoting Human Rights and on several other socialcentric issues.
For his unique poetry compositions, Dr. Ashok received
commendations from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former-President,
India, Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee, former-Prime Minister, India,
Bill Clinton, USA, Queen Elizabeth of Britain, Princess of
Wales, President and Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister
of Switzerland, Senator Viktor Busa, The Lord President, Italy,
United Nationals Organization, UNESCO, UNICEF etc. As of
now, seven poetry compilations, viz., (1) Charismata of Poesie;
(2) The Chariot of Musings; (3) Serene Thoughts; (4) Twinkles; (5)
Reflections; (6) Altitudes; (7) Outlet; out of 18 volumes of English
poetry have been published and received wide readership
acclaim all over the world. And, 12 spiritual-related books have
been translated so far by him from Telugu (local language) to
English language.
Dr. Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana belongs to the category of
poets of great grandeur, unique by the high intensity of the
experiences and the messages, unique by the candor of the
lyrical attitude, by the grace of his gesticulation and his
coagulating radius of the deepest thoughts, putting his soul in
the palm of the reader.
If I were to put Dr. Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana somewhere, it
would certainly be under the sign of humanity. The
distinguished poet has an exceptional vocation to open the
unknown windows of the soul with the privilege of his authentic
talent, with his fabulous poetic vocation and with the gift of the
pregnant and naturally spoken verse. His poems, wrapped in the
velvet of the metaphor, denote higher levels of wisdom,
sensitivity, depth, awareness and love for others people, in
fascinating lyrical clippings.
This volume of poetry, Horizon of Poetic Twinkles is distinguished
by wisdom, greatness, nobility, thus mirroring the beauty of the
author's eternally thirsty spirit. Living in all seasons of life, the
poet swings through the broad spectrum of life, managing to
extract from the word light and wisdom. The aesthetic value of
the poems of this volume is fabulous and sprinkled with an
enchanting lyricism.
Love for people and life is the perpetual expression of the
spiritual state the poet experiences intensely, with the grace of a
gentle tone, as exaltation. The poems are distinguished by
exuberance under the empire of love, peace, fraternity, integrity,
dignity and truth.
Indeed, this volume of poetry is a lyrical discourse with
overwhelming resonances of the soul of a remarkably poet,
which transmits emotion with his extraordinary ability to
plasticize the deep essences into a generous and sensitive poetic
language, turning every word into a real poetry.
Dr. Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana it frills, first of all, with the
ability to render to the word props surprising effects with a
polished style, to extract the essence of the word and to reveal
miracles by reconstituting an affective universe familiar with the
readers.

Corina Junghiatu
Chief Editor – VoceaLiterară, Romania
Zone Head – Motivational Strips
Director – World Literature Academy

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Seren thoughts

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Seren thoughts)

FOREWORD

BERNARD M. JACKSON
International poet – Review-writer

Bernard M. Jackson
International Poet /
Review Writer

Dr. Ernesto Kahan, MD MPH Head of Epidemiology
Department of Family Medicine
Tel Aviv University
I S R A E L

Reflections

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Reflections)

Prologue to the Poetry Book
‘REFLECTIONS’
of Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy, D.Litt., India
By : Prof. Dr. Ernesto Kahan, Israel

- Prof. Emeritus Dr. Ernesto Kahan MD

A MARVEL OF POETIC ‘REFLECTIONS’
A Foreword by Prof. Kodanda Ram
to Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy’s poetry collection

MS. SUSANA ROBERTS
POET/WRITER-ARGENTINA

Dr. Leo Semashko
President : Global Harmony Association
(with 500 co-authors from 56 countries and in 17 languages)
State Councillor of St. Petersburg,
Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker
Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia

Dr. Krishna Guranath rao Kulkarni

Outlet

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers :(Outlet)

FOREWORD

Ms. Blanca Salcedo Formosa

Chariot Of Musings

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers :(Chariot Of Musings)

Charismata Of Poesie

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (CHARISMATA OF POESIE)

T. Ashok Chakravarthy’s - CHARISMATA OF POESIE
(a collection of poems)

Twinkles

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Twinkles)

A foreword by Bodo Vespaciano
(A Cuban origin Poet-Artist, U.S.A)

Horizon

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Horizon)

Mrs. Pushpalatha Ramakrishnan,
Tamil Nadu

Corina Junghiatu,
Romania

Gandhica Book

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Seren thoughts)

FOREWORD

BERNARD M. JACKSON International poet – Review-writer

Bernard M. Jackson International Poet / Review Writer

Dr. Ernesto Kahan, MD MPH Head of Epidemiology Department of Family Medicine Tel Aviv University I S R A E L

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Reflections)

Prologue to the Poetry Book ‘REFLECTIONS’ of Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy, D.Litt., India By : Prof. Dr. Ernesto Kahan, Israel

- Prof. Emeritus Dr. Ernesto Kahan MD

A MARVEL OF POETIC ‘REFLECTIONS’ A Foreword by Prof. Kodanda Ram to Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy’s poetry collection

MS. SUSANA ROBERTS POET/WRITER-ARGENTINA

Dr. Leo Semashko President : Global Harmony Association (with 500 co-authors from 56 countries and in 17 languages) State Councillor of St. Petersburg, Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia

Dr. Krishna Guranath rao Kulkarni

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers :(Outlet)

FOREWORD

Ms. Blanca Salcedo Formosa

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers :(Chariot Of Musings)

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (CHARISMATA OF POESIE)

T. Ashok Chakravarthy’s - CHARISMATA OF POESIE (a collection of poems)

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Twinkles)

A foreword by Bodo Vespaciano (A Cuban origin Poet-Artist, U.S.A)

Foreword by Eminent Poets & Writers (Horizon)

Mrs. Pushpalatha Ramakrishnan, Tamil Nadu

Corina Junghiatu, Romania

BERNARD M. JACKSON
International poet – Review-writer

Bernard M. Jackson
International Poet /
Review Writer

Dr. Ernesto Kahan, MD MPH Head of Epidemiology
Department of Family Medicine
Tel Aviv University
I S R A E L

Prologue to the Poetry Book
‘REFLECTIONS’
of Dr. T. Ashok Chakravarthy, D.Litt., India
By : Prof. Dr. Ernesto Kahan, Israel

A MARVEL OF POETIC ‘REFLECTIONS’
A Foreword by Prof. Kodanda Ram
to Dr. Ashok T Chakravarthy’s poetry collection

MS. SUSANA ROBERTS
POET/WRITER-ARGENTINA

Dr. Leo Semashko
President : Global Harmony Association
(with 500 co-authors from 56 countries and in 17 languages)
State Councillor of St. Petersburg,
Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker
Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia

T. Ashok Chakravarthy’s - CHARISMATA OF POESIE
(a collection of poems)

A foreword by Bodo Vespaciano
(A Cuban origin Poet-Artist, U.S.A)

Mrs. Pushpalatha Ramakrishnan,
Tamil Nadu

Corina Junghiatu,
Romania