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Modern Review July 1927

1927

But the latest of the great poets of India has noted the pap in the life-story of Urratd We see her suddenly revealed to the astonished eyes of the universe in the maturity of her lissome grace the immortal gift of her beauty and her fatal fascination but nothing is known of the innocence of her early youth of her playfulness as a child or the arms that rocked her to sleep in a gilded chamber [...] What beauty of person or consciousness of strength can compensate for the void inseparable from the absence of the lights and shadows of the vista of memory recollections of the past to fill moments of idleness or preoccupation ? This is the emphasis on the word 'only' (n 5udhoo) when the poet says Urvasi has been for ages the beloved of the whole universe. [...] It is the puissance of sheer beauty shattering the concentrated contemplation of the saint and filling all the worlds with the ache of youth and maddening the fancy of the poet. [...] The rhythmic waves of the sea keep measure to her dancing feet the tremors of the agitated earth are communicated to the heaas of corn the heart of man is strangely and inexplicably disturbed: The falling meteor is a jewel burst from the chain round Urvasi's neck in the mad whirl of her dance the lambent lightning with its wavy lines is the broken strand of the lustrous girdle round her waist. [...] The morning dew in which the dawn is bathed represents the tears of the world while the tinge of rose with which the delicate feet of Urvasi is painted by the rays of the morning sun is the heartblood of all the worlds As the lotus which remains closed at night opens its heart to the first touch of the sun so the longing and the desire of the universe opens out as a lotus flower on which the dai
government politics public policy
Pages
146
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120016
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Ramananda Chatterjee view
Rabindranath Tagore: The Man and the Poet
1-12 Nagendranath Gupta view
War on Opium
13-15 Sudhindranath Bose view
The Scientific Institutions and Universities of the Union of Soviet :Republics
15-16 unknown view
Ceylon’s Political Emancipation
17-23 Nihal Singh view
A.E. Poet and Seer
23-26 G Ramachandran view
The Inner Life of Sir Narayan Chandavarkar
26-30 D.G. Vaidya view
The Chinese Woman To-Day
31-33 unknown view
The Crisis in South Rhodesia
33-35 C.F. Andrews view
China’s Struggle for Freedom
35-41 Taraknath Das view
Reviews and Notices of Books
41-49 K.M.J view
Currency and Prices in India
49-52 J.C. Sinha view
The Problem of Political Representation in India
52-60 Gurmukh Singh view
Gleanings
60-64 unknown view
V. Khare (1859-1924)
65-67 Jadunath Sarkar view
Greater India Revisited
68-74 Kalidas Nag view
Letters from the Editor
74-80 unknown view
Our Students’ Interests
81-82 unknown view
Indian Periodicals
82-91 unknown view
Foreign Periodicals
91-99 unknown view
Mr. Thompson’s Book on Rabindranath Tagore
99-103 Ramananda Chatterjee view
Primary Education for Bengal
103-107 Ramananda Chatterjee view
Indians Abroad
107-109 unknown view
Representation on the Population Basis and the Legislative Assembly
110-111 Ramananda Chatterjee view
Notes
112-128 unknown view