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triveni spotlight: 1st August 2025

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triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Kala Ramesh

1st August 2025


triveni spotlight August 2025




stuck to the slab

the               i

of the frozen f sh



David Steele

naad anunaad: an anthology of contemporary world haiku, 2016



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Naad  Anunaad                                        

Sound and Resonance


Haiku are word paintings. In film jargon, we could refer to them as shots frozen in time. But a haiku doesn't just stop there; it pilots the reader beyond images into a sacred realm. For a poem complete in just a few words, ‘resonance’ becomes the keynote. 


In Sanskrit, the primordial sound in the cosmos, referred to metaphorically as AUM, is known as naad, and its resonance as anunaad. According to the ancient Indian texts, an instrument, such as the voice, only resonates the cosmic sound in acts such as singing or speaking. The cavities in the body — the oral and sinus cavities and the spaces from our toes to our brain, all act as resonators or amplifiers for the ‘sound’ to reverberate, and this resonance is termed as anunaad in Sanskrit. 


The poet Kabir has expressed this in one of his spiritual songs, and says that his body is a musical instrument that only transmits the timeless cosmic resonance.            


wave calls …            

haunting melodies linger            

in the mind’s abyss


I hope the theory of naad and anunaad will draw a new generation of readers and authors into the kind of intimacy with nature that our grandmothers once enjoyed. Nature here does not mean just the hills, rivers, and forests — it includes cities and the life we live, our day-to-day activities, taking in stride the agonies, failures, successes, and idiosyncrasies intertwined with the natural world.


lotus viewing

the flowering                                                    

within  


These haiku are all from the contemporary haiku anthology, NAAD ANUNAAD, which effectively capture sound and resonance. Do leave your comments and haiku that, in your opinion, incorporate both nāda and anūnāda. Go for it!


Kala Ramesh


About the anthology


naad anunaad: an anthology of contemporary world haiku

Published by Vishwakarma Publications, Pune, 2016. Edited by Kala Ramesh (editor-in-chief), Sanjukta Asopa & Shloka Shankar (co-editors). Available on Amazon.


This first haiku anthology from India won the Merit Book Awards in the Best Anthology category instituted by the Haiku Society of America in 2017.



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Thank you, Kala. Poets, we hope you will enjoy this selection and love to contemplate the poems. Each resonates in a unique way, and is presented in triveni spotlight just for you! Please share your thoughts.


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triveni spotlight team       








4 comentarios


Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
a day ago

I would love to have poets try out haiku on these lines. Just for fun!

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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
a day ago

A teeny contribution that says Naad!


school vacation

the sound of a horse race

down the stairs

Failed haiku, Issue 98, Feb 2024


Anunaad:


hyacinth pond

fishes breathe

the silence

The Haku Journal, Week 14, Oct 2023


Lakshmi Iyer


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Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh
a day ago
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Lovely, Lakshmi.

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lakshmi iyer
lakshmi iyer
a day ago

Thank you!!

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