The Actor Awaits

He remained still,mouth agape.

Watching the other actors,clap and sing.

He was still awaiting his cue,when we walked on.

The Teacher's seat.

This young lad watched the rehearsing kids.

Mouth agape,very still.

Was he accompanying an actor?

Or was he an actor,waiting for his cue while sitting on the teacher's seat?

Children rehearse under the very trees,where classes are held.

Rabindranath set up this educational institution for students to be a celebration of the Indian ethos of shiksha.

Where the mind was unfettered,free and naturaly vibrant.

A tradition still proudly maintained here in Shantiniketan.

Rabindranath Thakur's creation,Vishvabharati.

As we walked into the Vishvabharati complex,the feeling was one of an era gone past, meeting today.

This was a window for me into the mind of a person who long ago, dared to be different.

Here was a writer,poet,painter,and a thinker.

He did what many would have thought of,but dared not do.

He walked his thought.

Salutations to you Thakur.