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| Sunil Sharma |
“The city is a labyrinth of streets, each one leading to a new adventure.”
--– Langston Hughes
What makes a city tick? What makes us choose a particular city? To migrate from one to another, near or far, sometimes, making us cross the seven seas?
Each city has got a personality, an aura.
Each city is individual, unique.
And it calls!
Listen to Robert Frost:
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
This month's call is based on a stunning picture by Keshav Sharma
, a young visual artist from Ontario, Canada. It captures the mood of the city in seasonal transition. The dusk has arrived. Lights are on and vivid painting unfolds before you.
Picture by Keshav Sharma
In fact, the visual is a testimony to the haunting beauty of nature. How autumn can colour the cityscapes with broad brushworks, dipped in the colours of primeval energy and raw intensity; a live canvas where one walks freely, being a part, an element of the collage.
The palette of hues is staggeringly rich and multi-shaded; fresh and real; soothing to the eyes and souls.
A typical cityscape.
Vibrant but silent.
Sunset brings its own sadness, melancholic note to the sensitive. It also signals the end of the day’s hard and honest work.
As Emile Dickinson observes in her signature style:
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night’s decay
Ushers in a drearier day.
The city with many faces and moods. Vibrant. decaying. Dynamic. Static. Witness to the seasonal change, transitions, leaving silent non-verbal messages to the dwellers, denizens.
The responses to this monthly prompt are equally riveting.
The rest of the issue is also rich with content.
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This is the last edition of Setu.
We are going on a much-deserved long break.
Remain thankful to our valued contributors, guest-editors, editors and readers for their continual love and support to the bilingual journal.
It was a fulfilling journey---and a humble endeavour to serve the global community of more than 7-million patrons.
Setu tried to serve as a bridge in Hindi and English to the best of our abilities and happy to say that it could create a place in your hearts and forge long-term bonds.
Big thanks to everybody involved in this almost-decade-long cultural mission; a monthly online outing with creatives that was always exhilarating; innovating and radical in the editorial vision and practice.
Setu is on hiatus from next year onwards.
Once back, we will let you know.
Happy holidays!
Happy New Year!
Apologies for any unintended error, inconvenience or mistake.
Enjoy life as it passes in its daily flow, every minute of it.
Continue to read and sing your songs, please.
With very best wishes!
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