Dr. Alka Nigam

Various writings of a scholar

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    • Articles
      • Literary
        • The Colorful World Of Women In Poetry “We Are Learning To Make Fire”
        • 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
        • Remembering Prince
        • “NO MORE MASKS”: The Poetry Of Kamala Das
        • “Writing like a Woman,”: The poetry of Jean Arasanayagam
        • Poets At Work
      • Newspaper
        • 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
        • The New Women Poets
        • Four Mahavakayas, Essence of the Upanishads
        • Are We Still in Kaliyuga?
        • Modern Problem Ancient Solution
        • English Poets And Advaita Vedanta
        • The Ghats of Banaras
        • Banarasi Babu
        • Aesthetic Dimensions of Eastern UP
        • 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
    • Reviews
      • Shooting The Floricans
      • Confessional Poetry of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton
      • The Outsider
      • Gaze of the Inner Eye
    • Books
      • F.T. Prince: A Study of his Poetry
    • Poems
      • Sati
      • Without You
      • अभिशप्त
      • अस्तित्वहीन
      • Saamana
      • Pataashap ke Poorva
      • Glory And Shame
    • Short Stories for Children
      • The Story of Lily
      • The Story of Seven Colored Rainbow
      • The Story of Ninny
      • The Story of a Butterfly
      • The Story of Chanda Mama
      • The Story of Shane
  • Gallery
    • Inaugural F.T. Prince Memorial Lecture
    • International Conference on Tennyson
    • Dept of English, Arts Faculty
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Shiv As Ardhnarishwar

July 17, 2023 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

Published at “The Speaking Tree”, The Times of India, July 8th 2023 Spiritually in nutshell the concept of Ardhnarishvar can be defined as the “Totality that lies beyond duality”.  In Literature and philosophy, the idea of duality emerges when these studies talk of two types of consciousness experienced in the inner core of one’s being […]

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Bhartihari—The King, Poet and Renunciate

March 9, 2023 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

Published: March 15th, 2023; Speaking Tree, The Times of India https://www.speakingtree.in/article/fruit-for-longevity   Life flows in a vast Heraclitan flux in which glory and darkness co-exist. In the journey of life boththese phases have a significant role to play.   Many a times the inner or  outer storm leaves behind a flood of light and at that […]

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Silence Makes Longevity Possible

May 20, 2021 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

Published Feb 2021; The Speaking Tree, Times of India : https://www.speakingtree.in/article/silence-makes-longevity-possible The majestic peaks and deep valleys of the Himalayas silently call us and leave us speechless with their magnetic charm; so does the bewitching beauty of the Saharan desert. The sound of crashing ocean waves may comfort us, but it is the ocean’s unfathomable […]

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Spiritual Significance of Ashtavakra Gita

August 1, 2019 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

Published July 2019: The Speaking Tree, Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/spiritual-significance-of-ashtavakra-gita/ Truth is one, perceived and expressed differently by different sages. A seeker on the path of enlightenment gets entangled in his own delusions passing through the dense forest of spiritual knowledge given to us by our rishis. Ashtavakra, the great mystic philosopher offers the key […]

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The Eighteen Puranas

March 3, 2019 by Dr. Alka Nigam Leave a Comment

https://www.speakingtree.in/article/the-eighteen-puranas-727624 The Puranas have revitalised and revolutionised spirituality propounded in the Vedas and Upanishads, and made it all-time relevant, writes ALKA NIGAM The vast Vedic Vangmaya is a  treasure trove of everything that is lofty in Hinduism.  Since much of this ancient religious knowledge is a result of direct experiences of seers rather than a single author and conveyed […]

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