Evening Raga

by Ahila Sambamoorthy

Originally published on February 1, 1999

It is the dark half of the lunar month a silver gloaming illumes hills of marble and the amber afterglow of thunder and lightning There’s magic in the veena singing of an ageless cosmic romance Krishna and Radha and the delirious freedom of the night world her head filled with the redolence of coriander blossoms [...]