The Search for Soil eBook Karan Arora Sonali Maniar
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My name is Karan Arora. I’m seventeen, and currently live in Bangalore, India, with my family. I moved here from my birthplace, California, when I was ten.
This collection of poems comes from a lot of thoughts that circulate around my head. Perhaps the central idea that my poems reflect is my search for identity, for comfort in my own skin. Some poems you read come straight from my passion and longing for nature. Others are driven by the way I feel conflicted about things around me and within me. Some come from the sense of growing up, while others from my frustration with school. The poems appear roughly in the order in which I wrote them, and show my progression as a writer over the last two-and-a-half years.
I hope you enjoy reading the poems – I certainly had fun writing them. Thanks a lot for stopping by!
The Search for Soil eBook Karan Arora Sonali Maniar
This is a charming collection from a talented & budding poetic soul breathing & walking on earth under the name of Karan Arora, experiencing the maturing & metamorphosing pangs of that phase of its being called adolescence as it tackles the issues of self identity & cultural belonging in a world which is at once torn asunder by its diversity, distance, differences & dilemmas and yet magically unified by its all pervasive nature, humanity, kinship and currently, even technology.Born & brought up in California, where he spent first ten years of his life, Karan had to travel back to India when the job requirements of his highly educated parents of Indian origin caused them to resettle in their native land around seven years back.
Uprooted from California and relocated (affectionately & comfortably ensconced, though) in India, Karan’s keenly perceptive mind, at the tender age of ten, became subjected to a whirlpool of diverse, often conflicting, thoughts and emotions emanating from the cultural disparities of his own & parental native lands creating a turmoil often not easy to contend with. Thus began his subconscious journey of search for meaning, purpose, identity & belonging in a world where trans-continental differences, though increasingly bridged by technology, still needed all the help from Nature & the innate Humanity of his kith and kin wherein he found his refuge. As he grew in years & wisdom, Karan found a fountain of poetic enunciation within himself and thus sprouted forth a stream of lyrical expression of his perceptions that is “The Search for Soil”!
All in all, it is an enchanting journey of self discovery & self expression by a sensitive teenage soul braving the conflicted issue of dichotomies of belonging that manages, nevertheless, to conclude that the world is its oyster and discovering roots in any particular soil can just be a matter of perception, rather than a cause for torment.
Karan is an amazingly creative wordsmith, still tenderly circumspect about his first public offering as he wonders about the degree of poetic spontaneity in his expression in the introduction he writes to the collection. Yet, it is a hallmark of his maturing thought to conclude that the proof of the pudding lies in the taste. In his own words: “The gorgeous thing about poetry is that once it’s in front of you, it becomes more than me. You become the artist, as you bring all of yourself to the words and they resonate with you in ways I didn’t intend.” Well, Mr. Karan Arora - the all new delectable Word-Chef in the world of poetic literature – you needn’t feel so gingerly about your work for your word pudding is just what a lover of dainty word-cuisine would like to order. Your very own description of your ‘Writing’ (in your poem by the same title):
“Some evenings/ The droplet/ Of cacophonic colors and superficial shapes/ That I have drugged myself into breaks/ And an ocean of silence descends.
At times like these/ In my fountain of laptop light/ The only reason I can breathe/ Is the faint trickle of keys.”
is an evocative delineation of the contemplative mind you possess that descends like an ocean of meditatively creative silence upon your cognition. And what flows out is the bewitchingly breathtaking word-syrup that your poetry is, zooming up fountain like from between the key canalicular system of your laptop. Truly poe-techie !
All of seventeen, yet composing such word gems for over two years already, Karan combines the qualitative best from his head and heart to weave a fine tapestry of word draping – the kind that would warm your sensibilities on a winter day. This finds an apt expression in his poem “My Warm Winter World” as he opines:
“That we must stand and face our duties, it’s true;
Yet sometimes, in need of a reprieve from such tedious work,
It’s alright to have a snowball fight under a soft canopy, in a world of icy blue!”
Also from the same poem:
“I gasp as my rosy tongue
Catches a small mouthful
Of the ice cream falling from above
And my eyes widen
As an icy trickle
Shoots chills through my mouth
To warm me up.”
is an unspoken declaration that Karan speaks a tongue of rosy expressions that shoot chills of aesthetic appreciations up your poetic spine and leave you with a warm-n-fuzzy taste of his words in your mouth if you choose to enunciate them too in a recital!
His title poem “The Search for Soil” is a bold & jumbo effort portraying the mind ruminations of a youngster made to feel like an expatriate by his life circumstances, yet endeavoring subconsciously all the time to find a new Cosmopolitan Soil within the frames of his mind that could make him feel equally at home in Palo Alto & San Fran, as also Bangalore & Bhiwani! That's an epic effort for a poet so young & bespeaks his high literary acumen. The Bong connection interspersed throughout the poem is an allusion to a well known struggle for preservation of cultural self identity carried out by an entire people (the Bong, from the erstwhile East Pakistan) whose Bangladeshi Language Movement of 1950s Karan chooses to draw parallels from as he reflects on his own ambivalence in the matter. This beautiful piece of poetry is a giant effort from a young mind and reflects the promise of how much more he is capable of creating with his sensitive & thoughtful pen! This one deserved to have the entire collection named after it.
Way to go Karan! It was a huge pleasure reading your anthology!!!
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The Search for Soil eBook Karan Arora Sonali Maniar Reviews
Karan Arora is presenting this at the mere age of 17. Wow! Can't wait for more to come from this sensitive and articulate teenager.
On the mortality of life he writes
..As the tree lets out a cry.
Find us in your heart, the yet-to-blossom buds...
And then on the joy of eating ice-cream he writes
... Shoots chills through my mouth
To warm me up.
This is a charming collection from a talented & budding poetic soul breathing & walking on earth under the name of Karan Arora, experiencing the maturing & metamorphosing pangs of that phase of its being called adolescence as it tackles the issues of self identity & cultural belonging in a world which is at once torn asunder by its diversity, distance, differences & dilemmas and yet magically unified by its all pervasive nature, humanity, kinship and currently, even technology.
Born & brought up in California, where he spent first ten years of his life, Karan had to travel back to India when the job requirements of his highly educated parents of Indian origin caused them to resettle in their native land around seven years back.
Uprooted from California and relocated (affectionately & comfortably ensconced, though) in India, Karan’s keenly perceptive mind, at the tender age of ten, became subjected to a whirlpool of diverse, often conflicting, thoughts and emotions emanating from the cultural disparities of his own & parental native lands creating a turmoil often not easy to contend with. Thus began his subconscious journey of search for meaning, purpose, identity & belonging in a world where trans-continental differences, though increasingly bridged by technology, still needed all the help from Nature & the innate Humanity of his kith and kin wherein he found his refuge. As he grew in years & wisdom, Karan found a fountain of poetic enunciation within himself and thus sprouted forth a stream of lyrical expression of his perceptions that is “The Search for Soil”!
All in all, it is an enchanting journey of self discovery & self expression by a sensitive teenage soul braving the conflicted issue of dichotomies of belonging that manages, nevertheless, to conclude that the world is its oyster and discovering roots in any particular soil can just be a matter of perception, rather than a cause for torment.
Karan is an amazingly creative wordsmith, still tenderly circumspect about his first public offering as he wonders about the degree of poetic spontaneity in his expression in the introduction he writes to the collection. Yet, it is a hallmark of his maturing thought to conclude that the proof of the pudding lies in the taste. In his own words “The gorgeous thing about poetry is that once it’s in front of you, it becomes more than me. You become the artist, as you bring all of yourself to the words and they resonate with you in ways I didn’t intend.” Well, Mr. Karan Arora - the all new delectable Word-Chef in the world of poetic literature – you needn’t feel so gingerly about your work for your word pudding is just what a lover of dainty word-cuisine would like to order. Your very own description of your ‘Writing’ (in your poem by the same title)
“Some evenings/ The droplet/ Of cacophonic colors and superficial shapes/ That I have drugged myself into breaks/ And an ocean of silence descends.
At times like these/ In my fountain of laptop light/ The only reason I can breathe/ Is the faint trickle of keys.”
is an evocative delineation of the contemplative mind you possess that descends like an ocean of meditatively creative silence upon your cognition. And what flows out is the bewitchingly breathtaking word-syrup that your poetry is, zooming up fountain like from between the key canalicular system of your laptop. Truly poe-techie !
All of seventeen, yet composing such word gems for over two years already, Karan combines the qualitative best from his head and heart to weave a fine tapestry of word draping – the kind that would warm your sensibilities on a winter day. This finds an apt expression in his poem “My Warm Winter World” as he opines
“That we must stand and face our duties, it’s true;
Yet sometimes, in need of a reprieve from such tedious work,
It’s alright to have a snowball fight under a soft canopy, in a world of icy blue!”
Also from the same poem
“I gasp as my rosy tongue
Catches a small mouthful
Of the ice cream falling from above
And my eyes widen
As an icy trickle
Shoots chills through my mouth
To warm me up.”
is an unspoken declaration that Karan speaks a tongue of rosy expressions that shoot chills of aesthetic appreciations up your poetic spine and leave you with a warm-n-fuzzy taste of his words in your mouth if you choose to enunciate them too in a recital!
His title poem “The Search for Soil” is a bold & jumbo effort portraying the mind ruminations of a youngster made to feel like an expatriate by his life circumstances, yet endeavoring subconsciously all the time to find a new Cosmopolitan Soil within the frames of his mind that could make him feel equally at home in Palo Alto & San Fran, as also Bangalore & Bhiwani! That's an epic effort for a poet so young & bespeaks his high literary acumen. The Bong connection interspersed throughout the poem is an allusion to a well known struggle for preservation of cultural self identity carried out by an entire people (the Bong, from the erstwhile East Pakistan) whose Bangladeshi Language Movement of 1950s Karan chooses to draw parallels from as he reflects on his own ambivalence in the matter. This beautiful piece of poetry is a giant effort from a young mind and reflects the promise of how much more he is capable of creating with his sensitive & thoughtful pen! This one deserved to have the entire collection named after it.
Way to go Karan! It was a huge pleasure reading your anthology!!!
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