Guest Post, 2

I have met also this Sunday’s guest online. However, Orbindu Ganga and I have been communicating quite intensely on a variety of subjects since the onset of our friendship on social media. My visits to his posts have shown me that he is a graceful, gracious, caring and giving individual whom I see as a modern-day thinker. When it comes to the betterment of humanity at large, Orbindu is passionately present on electronic platforms with his landmark “BeHumane” [sic] motto.  His personal mantra is about ‘making someone smile’. To that I would like to state a fact: He makes my heart smile.

I could go on and on about this extraordinary soul who happens to be a young poetic talent as well as an accomplished painter, but I will restrain myself from doing so; for, his creative writings and art speak for themselves. As for his spirit, a true gift, you can only know it up close, if he lets you in.

 

 

“Mastered, slave within”
A Poem by Orbindu Ganga

Thoughts have flown never
To decipher, the genesis of being,
Intruding many times with a smile
To be caught, escaping from the clutches,
Sauntering to peek through
The windows, they ricocheted,
With no one to open
The doors, she knocked,
As the doors opened to
See the guest, she escaped,
She continued knocking
The door, not to be seen,
When she was caught
Trying to escape, she bought
Many memories of yestreen,
Such was the gush
Of the zephyr, it left an imprint.

Drenched many times
To hold the might, to stay focused,
Relentlessly to drive the mind
To achieve, the goal of life,
Many times compromised
The tide, to leave it aside,
Smiling for a reason never
Known before, striving for success,
Carried baggage full of hope
With no love, reaching the goal,
Having achieved never made
An iota of a smile, thoughts lingered,
Success never gave a smile
Within, leaving the bliss behind,
Designed to win the battle
Of success, lost the journey of life.

Creating thoughts to amplify
The being, thoughts stayed,
Never did we realize the dreams
Of feelings, giving us the smile,
Got delved into the realms of
Achieving, we lost our heart,
The thoughts to make life
Within self, blown with the wind,
Creating the essence of our
Thoughts never created the zest,
Words were penned to craft
The feelings, to have lost the meaning,
Mastering our plans were
Imbibed, only to fail to live a life,
Experiencing the feeling have
Dried, only to be fallen deep.

 

Selected Quotes by Orbindu Ganga

 

 

“My Observation on Beauty”
By Orbindu Ganga

Beauty is a manifestation of what we see. The thought of seeing something beautiful depends on how one sees it. The realization of a beautiful being is the realization of self. When we are able to realize that the existence of self and we identify the self, the precursor of the journey begins. The thought to unlearn and to start from the unknown shall be the inception of the journey. The thoughtlessness shall veil into nothingness to make the flow in search of the truth. The receiver and the giver become the same when the realms of understanding of the truth become lucid. Beauty in its form is a manifestation with an expression. When the truth is known from an unknown, beauty doesn’t become an expression but a being within. As the form evolves to a formless form, the beauty becomes a formless entity with the form and formless layered within one another to become itself. It is a vicious circle of inception and denouement becoming the being itself. The form loses the value of its manifestation where the existence becomes irreverent since the entity of beauty has become a being of formlessness from a form and formless.

 

A Selection of Orbindu Ganga’s Paintings

(Please move your cursor to each picture in the collage immediately below to see the titles. Some are displayed again, but untitled, in the circle frames underneath the collage for your repeated viewing pleasure.)

 

Biography, as Written by My Guest

Orbindu Ganga is an Indian post-graduate in science and the first recipient of Dr. Mitra Augustine gold medal for academic excellence. He worked in financial, banking and publishing domains. He proved his finesse as a Soft Skills Trainer and Content Account Manager (Client Relationship Manager).

Content writing intrigued him to love the world of English literature. Loving the words and understanding the origin made him agog for semantics, etymology, and neology. He touches the nuances to get imbibed in understanding human behaviour in psychology and counseling. To understand the dynamics and the deeper conscience of mind is his view of knowing neuroscience and philosophy. The past has always been a subject of discussion which he adsorbs from history and archaeological studies. Nature and its diverse species have fascinated him in the study of entomology, ecology, oceanography, and ichthyology. Walls do speak and so do is the structure which captivated him to get imbued in architecture and interior designing. Knowing the world around and creating a thought to get answers whirled in the thoughts to the world of quizzing. Understanding the people and the places created more inquisitiveness towards traveling. The heavenly bodies and its movement primed his love for astronomy. The waves of silence have always whispered him to music. In pursuit of the truth of the unknown influenced him deep in spirituality. He loves to be a counselor and a life coach.

He is known by his pen name in the poetic world as Orlando Blake. Orbindu Ganga is a multilingual poet, author, critic, content writer, painter, humanitarian and spiritual healer.

Poetry has been his first love. His poetry “Lighting a candle of hope” has been published in the yearly “World Healing World Peace 2020” anthology published by the publishing house Inner Child Press International Publication from the United States of America. His poetry featured among the 42 poets around the world in the yearly anthology WHISPERS OF SOFTLAY: Yearly Anthology of poetry.

He has been the featured poet twice in November 2019 and July 2020 edition of “The Year of Poet VI and VII” for the poems – “Alone in the garden”, “Scary eyes”, “Dilapidated edifice”, “Hiding her tears”, “Waiting” and “Flowing” published by Inner Child Press International Publication (United States of America).

His poems have been published in international publications like The Writers Club (United Kingdom) – “Tsunami”, SIPAY Literary Journal (Seychelles) – “Revered the silence”, “Humanity in nature’s cry: Kerala Flood” and “Unflowered.” Teesta Review : A Journal of poetry (India) – “Touching edifices” and “Mendicant”, Sahitya Anand (India) – “Time to awake”, “Shards of glass”, “Perpetuity in backwaters” and “It rained like never before”, Spillwords Press (United Kingdom) “My smiling assassin”, “Premonition”, “Metamorphosed”, “Ricocheting the self”, “Phrontistery”, “Aurora splashes”, “Searching him”, “Her creation”, “Flowing ink” and “The waiting days”, SETU (United States of America), OPA – “Living with her memories” , Atunis (Albania) – “A way to snowfondland”, “Silence after the commotion and “My snobbish little bridge”, Winamop (United Kingdom) – “Ashes”, “Touch me not”, “My snout-fair snow”, “Walking in the snow” and “Being forlorn in autumn”, “Serendipity”, “Starry Night”, “Tears”, “Culacino”, “Junction” and “Blank”, Science Shore (India) – “Realization”, Borderless Journal (India) – “Praying Mantis” & Poetry of Spring’s Embrace (United States of America) – “Sun Sliced the Ice”, “If you had …”, “She was my mother”, “Haunted exile”, “Confetti of mizzle”, “Where do I seek justice ?”, “Flowing like a river”, “Inane species”, “To think different”, “In tune with nature”, “Sauntering heart for her”, “Let her go”, “Broken Wings”, “My colours”, “Still inspiring us”, “God’s own country”, “Being”, “Shadow”, “Troubled water”, “Inundated flow”, “The nameless”, “Remorse”, “Let them heal alone”, “The shift”, “Tittle”, “Voice of a revolution”, “Chiaroscuro”, “Dusted in dust”, “Astral”, “To connect”, “Nihility”, “Substance of a thought”, “Seeing the life through”, “Thoughtfulness”, “The Unsung”, “Like never before”, “At last, not again – The rain”, “Weeping in my heart”, “The choice of knowing”, “Listening to her”, “Adam-Eved”, “Never the same”, “An ink forever” ,”A drive at night”, “Living with her, delighted forever”, “Au Revoir”, “She is my smile”, “Karmic flow”, “A helping hand”, “Copious in silence”, “A taste of being amarantine”, “Harakiri”, “Lost with the mind”, “Pulchritudinous drained”, “Moments of beauty”, “Existence of Tagore”, “Mastered, Slave within”, and”Enprint of nature – Truth of life.”

The November edition of the prestigious Poiesisonline Multiversity International Monthly magazine THE MAG has published his multilingual poetry from English (My Silence …) to Hindi –  मेरी खामोशियां (Meri Khamoshiyaan) and Tamil – என் மௌனம் (En maunam). His poetry “A clarion call for synergy” has been published in the special edition of journal Cultural Reverence.

His poems have been published in anthologies like VASUDHA 2 – “Selfless”, RAINDROPS OF LOVE, HEARTISTRY – “She” and “Love being floored”, POEMS FROM 30 BEST POETS – “Knowing me”, “Journey to heart” and “Hide & Seek”, MOONLIGHT – “Moonglade”, “Pleine Lune” and “Moonwake”, MEDLEY OF MELODIES – “Cleanse me”, CORONA – SOCIAL DISTANCING – “The known assassin – Corona”, “ROOBROO – II – ” Watered” and THE HEART OF A POET – “Being humane.” “His poems have been published in Techtouchtalk, an English Weekly – “The landfall” and “Ant – The Ant.”

His poetry featured in an international anthology “WORLD FOR PEACE” by World Institute for Peace (WIP). He has published his oeuvre “Where is my daughter ?” on dementia in the book TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS WITH DEMENTIA. His poetry “My words” featured in the YouTube channel POETRY FOR PEACE on World Poetry Day March 21, 2019. His three poems – “Playing around”, “Eternal love” and “Princess” are published in the anthology “HARMONIOUS SYMPHONIES” by Soulitaire. His two poems “Smiling with a gelasin” and “Like never before’ are published in the anthology ” BEYOND WORDS”.

His short story “Dharma’s Battle” has been published in the book “The land of unfree laborers.” He has two research papers published in the journal – Thar Multidiscipline Journal (A spiritual insight: A study on Rudyard Kipling’s poem “IF”) and a book – The Poetry of Vihang A. Naik (New Literary Dimensions) – Quest for peace and Hope: A study of Vihang A. Naik’s Poetry Manifesto (New & Selected Poems). He has reviewed a book – Reneging Quiescence by Dr Samiha Zubair.

His articles “Thoughts have a heart” and “God’s own country – A model to emulate during medical emergency”, “A journey away from crescendo”, “Mother: A God on earth” and “The inception of a new dimension” have been published in the digital platform in yoursnews.in. “Education system need reform” and “The suicidal SELF” has been published in Sindh Courier. His article “The art of learning” is published in SCIENCE SHORE. His poetry and prose have been published in the book “Complexion Based Discriminations.” His science article “Understanding bipolar disorder with pineal gland” has been published in the book  “NO ONE FIGHTS ALONE – Volume 2.” His painting “Adsorbing the energy” and the article “A journey to explore” have been published in a spiritual journal – Awakening (India). His photography “THEYYAM” has been published in Winamop. He features in World Anthology by World Nation Writers’ Union (Kazakistan) (Temirqazyq – Best Poet/Writer 2017) – “Reams of dreams” and “Pantin.

Orbindu Ganga’s Links:

Author’s Interview
Blog
Amazon
Amazon Author Page
Facebook
BeHumane Group
Words Group
Instagram