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Waking The Fires Waking The Fires is a collection of movies based on Shali Ittaman's poems. Join now to watch.

Anchoring the poems is The New Colossus - a searing cry of the Statue of Liberty watching America turn under Trump.

26/09/2025

Life in the Thar is unforgiving. Yet from this austere land have risen stories of resilience, stoicism, and quiet heroism.

26/09/2025

Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar was the sound of India. Her voice carried such purity and divinity that people would pause in their tracks, spellbound by her songs.

26/09/2025

Whether it is season's turning, ideologies crumbling, or hearts learning new languages of hope, change is how life insists on going on. The poem Tidal Waves presents that idea.

26/09/2025

The cluster of three poems in Soul Journeys attempts to understand the idea of the eternal ataman in the light of the teachings of the Bhagvad Gita.

26/09/2025

In the poem Melting Mountain, the pronoun 'Her' refers to Bharat (India) - the land and civilisation whose cultural, linguistic and regional diversity has defined its character. Some carried knowledge and cultural strains from distant civilisations; others bore India's wisdom outward, seeding it across the world. The ancient ideal of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam often echoed in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speeches, is a civilisational truth India has long lived by. Melting Mountains is, in fact, an ode to that lofty idea.

26/09/2025

Every year, about 11 million foreign tourists visit Vrindavan, a place central to Krishna devotion. The poem, Vrindavan Tales, introduces them to the spirituality and mysticism that surrounds the town.

26/09/2025

Vaidehi — Sita’s occasional name — is a poem about Ravan and his unrequited love for her. Though once a powerful suitor at her swayamvar, he fails to win her hand. For years he carries the weight of rejection, despair, and longing. This poem gives voice to his heartbreak.

20/09/2025

The Statue of Liberty speaks again.
In my poem The New Colossus – 2025, she cries out as America under Trump betrays the promise Emma Lazarus wrote into her 1883 sonnet.

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