Dr. Alka Nigam

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        • T.S Eliot And Modern Hindi Poets
        • F T Prince’s: The Wind In The Tree: An Analysis
        • The Black World of Nikki Giovanni
        • Hindu Thought in the Poetry of Tennyson
        • Out of Our Prisons We Emerge
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        • “NO MORE MASKS”: The Poetry Of Kamala Das
        • “Writing like a Woman,”: The poetry of Jean Arasanayagam
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        • Shiv As Ardhnarishwar
        • Bhartihari—The King, Poet and Renunciate
        • Planet Earth Has A Key To Our Spiritual Growth
        • Only Deshi English please! This is BHU
        • Silence Makes Longevity Possible
        • Spiritual Significance of Ashtavakra Gita
        • The Eighteen Puranas
        • A Drop Reveals the Ocean
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        • Are We Still in Kaliyuga?
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        • The Ghats of Banaras
        • Banarasi Babu
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        • Truth, Shiva And Beauty
        • Varanasi’s dirt is India’s dirt
        • Glamorization of Religion
        • Ignite the Change
        • Singing Angels
        • Whispering Woods
        • Relevance of Patanjali Yoga in Today’s Life
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      • The Outsider
      • Gaze of the Inner Eye
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      • F.T. Prince: A Study of his Poetry
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      • Sati
      • Without You
      • अभिशप्त
      • अस्तित्वहीन
      • Saamana
      • Pataashap ke Poorva
      • Glory And Shame
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    • International Conference on Tennyson
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Sati

October 20, 2022 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

I saw yo on your funeral pyre dead I am on my funeral pyre alive amidst flames of desires, longing help     less        ness burning me inch by inch. Hours are slow Weeks and months Slur by. Who says Sati has ended? The custom is still alive. When a partner leaves It’s shadow creeps […]

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The Art of Doing Nothing

September 13, 2022 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/the-art-of-doing-nothing  ‘Nothing’ in the present reference does not reflect even remotely any shade of grey.  The word ‘art’ saves it from falling into the pitfalls of sentimentality, depression, angst, alienation. Rather the word ‘art’ becomes a savior and changes ‘nothing’ into a medicinal pill protecting it from the clutches of all these modern ailments. The […]

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Come Into My Shelter

March 24, 2022 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

This most soothing, most assuring invite in our violently rollicking life comes from Lord Krishna initially given to Arjun, the eternal saadhak in all of us. Part of a shloka this positive declaration appears in Chapter 18 verse 66 in Shrimad Bhagavad -Gita     sarvadharmaan parityajya   maam ekam saranam vraja  It is astounding that Gita […]

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Many Religions, One Spirit

January 15, 2022 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

Reach the point where there is room for none other than the One, where you are free of all trappings, writes Alka Nigam Using religion as a crutch we climb the stairs of the growth of self and when we reach the summit we don’t need religion any longer.  Its rituals and holy books become […]

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Reality Of Our Dream World

January 14, 2022 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

Ornithologists have observed that birds die fighting their own reflection as enemy in the mirror windows. In Greek mythology Narcissus, a handsome youth fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool and became intoxicated with it to an extent of pathological self admiration and subsequently ended as a model in his name as Narcissistic personality disorder.  For the […]

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