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Sreyashi GhoshGeneva, 2011

Originally from Calcutta, India, Sreyashi has worked for several years in NGOs and UN

agencies in India, Switzerland and the USA.

Travelling to places such as Egypt, Kenya and Rwanda has led her to write her second

collection of poems: "My soul on a platter", which also reflects the inspiration she

draws from her experiences, as well as her ongoing interest in human rights and social

issues.

This book is an attempt to capture the varied human emotions one experiences in this

journey of life, expressed through art and poetry. Some of the poems are inspired from

the paintings.

She painted these over the years, starting with dabbling with colours, then some

geometric shapes,line drawings with ink on black and white paper,finally using oil and

acrylic to express emotions with a riot of colours.

About me

Ink on Paper

Travel photographs

Oil and Acrylic series

Poems

2010Oil and acrylic

80 x 60 cm

« Dreams »

When frozen in this eternal bliss

All barrenness shall become fertile

All diseases cured

Fulfilment rest assured

In this genesis of life

Decay and pain shall meet its nemesis

We will all flourish

And love will pervade

And success shall invade

For love knows no boundaries

Neither do dreams

A conglomeration of ideals

A giving heart nestled

In a strong body

And an intelligent mind

To reason with

From kingdom of cerebral moments

To the world of ‘Utopia’

This is my dream

Caught unawares, I drift ,

into a world of dreams

This unknown fantasy

I dare to dream

Where my aspirations reign supreme

I will hold on “when the going gets tough”

I know it’s not easy and going to be rough

Like a caged wild animal

Like an incarcerated soul

Yet my thoughts are free

I dream

I dream of change

Of a better world

Of love and peace

Where there will be no breach

Where happiness we will preach

And songs of love teach

« Desire »Let my hot passions find its vent in your body

Or cool on your passions

Let our passions touch each other

Madness and desires overcome me

Wild fire flowing through the night

Let my passionate body rest like a river rests on its shores

Take me into your arms and let my lustful passions seek refuge in you

Let these passions collide against your body

Like waves dashes against the shores

Like wetness puts an end to all aridity

When the rains touch the parched land

And brings relief and calms the restless

You put an end to my restless soul

Put an end to my sleepless nights

When all my raw desires are being wasted

Seduced by pain and not passions

Emptiness encompasses my body

Engulf me in the warmth of your body

So that these cold nights under the moon

Don’t end in listlessness

That these moments of lovemaking lull to sleep

Let these colourless dull moments coloured by your passions

I want my restlessness to seek refuge in your calmness

Put an end to my longing

Let the moments of loneliness lead us to a divine union

To this spiritual, sexual whole where nothing can divide us

To take us into eternity where nothing can break us

Where all our longing is gratified

And bathed in the holiness of sexual love

And blessed by all the gods of hedonism

 

2010Oil and acrylic

70 x 50 cm

« Chaos »From a drop of blood

To a vortex of violence

Whether terror strikes in Bombay

Or Maoists and naxals attack

From Kashmir to Godhra

Innocent lives killed in the name of:

Divided states, divided strengths, divided religion.

What goes on?

Rape, murder, pillage

Yet believers going on pilgrimage

To pray,

But to whom?

A silent spectator?

That which they call “God”?

What “God” is there?

What belief?

Who do we worship?

Where there is a celebration of death?

Not of life!

Who do we trust?

When our faith in humanity shaken?

 Power and Politics are a gameMere pawns without shameWhere Hegemony and Patriarchy reign supremeIndia booming in technology Those who claim to haveCleansed souls and mindsHow?But putrid hearts 

Those sins cannot be condoned

Those hypocrites

Cannot be bathed in the Holy Ganga

Our Holy river polluted by crime and corruption

With the death of emotions and mental eruptions

Contributing and compromising with one’s soul

For the sake of livelihood

Feed the mind and soul

Feed the body with love

Feed not with hatred

For this cankers and devours peace

Disrupted peace of mind

Scattered happiness

Fractured trust

Fight, the evil within, if you must

2010

Oil and acrylic

60 x 50 cm

Inspired by Monet’s waterlillies.

This was a natural reaction to Angkor Wat’s

lotuses from Cambodia. Clear influence of

Impressionism.

This is inspired by the eros which means life

and motion.

« Lotus »

2010

Oil and acrylic

70 x 50 cm

To Africa

African Sky

African sunset

-My Soul On a Platter

Sreyashi Ghosh

« Masai »

2010Oil and acrylic

60 x 45 cm

The Death Series

Death of feelingsMy feelings have been cutAnd helmed on the edgesI am in control nowI am strivingTo cut back on those “extra” emotionsI am no longer propoundingIn fact at every step I am myself astoundingDamned to be confounding A bludgeoning A blunt statementAll put across succinctlyThey were meant to be embedded deeplyHe was never meant to stayI wish him well, I pray They say I am blessed with compassionSince when have these endowments been treasures?To me they are a burdenThe death of all those emotionsAll so sudden!

My ears yearn for a human voice

My heart cries for another soul

My body aches for someone’s touch

My hand wants to reach for someone

else’s

Alone

Massacre of innocent people

Lives and hearts divided

Death and blood

Macabre dance of death

All weapons befriended

All friends become foes

Children burnt alive

Women raped and killed

Human lives tortured

Human beings turn to devils

Taking lives

Now freed from hate

But willing to make peace

This is a new world

Though weather beaten

The survivors stand up

They fight back

With the beauty of love

With the beauty of shared togetherness

In this world of peace

We the dreamers stand in solidarity

Rwanda

Melange