<title xml:lang="en" type="main">Jugalbandi Jameela Begum and P P Ajayakumar Typeset by C V Radhakrishnan Paintings by P P Ajayakumar Encoded by C V Radhakrishnan Sayahna Foundation River Valley Technologies Sayahna Foundation Trivandrum, India December 24, 2021
JWRA 34, Jagthy Trivandrum 695014 India

The text of the original item is copyrighted to Jameela Begum and the paintings to P P Ajayakumar. The text encoding and editorial notes were created and/or prepared by the Sayahna Foundation and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution By NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License  (cc by-nc-sa 4.0). Commercial use of the content is prohibited. Any reuse of the material should credit the copyright holders and the Sayahna Foundation and must be shared under the same terms.

 <title xml:lang="en" type="main">Jugalbandi ajayan-jameela-jugalbandi Jameela Begum and P P Ajayakumar 39 pages of source material Sayahna Foundation Trivandrum, India 2021 December English Poems and Paintings Jameela Begum Ajayakumar P P Jugalbandi Open Access Publishing English Sayahna Foundation Free Software TEI XML PDF HTML5 TeX digital delivery Trivandrum, India, India Jugalbandi Jameela Begum and Ajayakumar, P. P.
Balancing Act
Fruits of passion; oil on canvas painting by Ajayakumar, P. P. (2018)

Once Mary had a basket of eggs on her head For an instant she jerked her head in wanton pride Out fell the eggs, breaking them and her dreams The upturned basket went rolling down the way. Someone down the lane, caught it for its beauty A finely woven basket twined dexterously in and out Marvelling at the shades of grey and brown And turned it upside down to see it more Someone walking up the lane, looked long at it Wondering what was that under the basket Hen crouching on eggs to hatch a litter Or was it an empty one with no promises. Someone coming down with passion fruits in hand Stopped to place three of it on the base with care One more would have upset the balance on the base It was not like filling a whole basket. Someone saw the three green round passion fruits But not the basket, the winding vines of abundance Of lost paradise and the trees of pride A lost world of mankind’s disobedience. And so Mary’s basket rolled down the way Balancing new thoughts and dreams In the minds of many who passed that way Fact and fantasy ploughing fertile minds.

—Jameela Begum

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Title:  Jugalbandi.

Author(s):  Jameela Begum and P P Ajayakumar.

First publication details:  Sayahna Foundation; Trivandrum, India; ; 2021 December.

Deafult language:  en, English.

Keywords:  Poems and Paintings, Jameela Begum, Ajayakumar P P, Jugalbandi, Open Access Publishing, English, Sayahna Foundation, Free Software, TEI XML, PDF, HTML5, TeX.

Digital Publisher:  Sayahna Foundation; JWRA 34, Jagthy; Trivandrum 695014; India.

Date:  December 24, 2021.

Credits:  The text of the original item is copyrighted to Jameela Begum and the paintings to P P Ajayakumar. The text encoding and editorial notes were created and/or prepared by the Sayahna Foundation and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution By NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License  (cc by-nc-sa 4.0). Commercial use of the content is prohibited. Any reuse of the material should credit the copyright holders and the Sayahna Foundation and must be shared under the same terms.

Production history:  Typesetter:  C V Radhakrishnan; Paintings by:  P P Ajayakumar; Encoding:  C V Radhakrishnan.

Production notes:  The entire document processing has been done in a computer running gnu/linux operating system and TeX and friends. The pdf has been generated using XeLaTeX from TeXLive distribution 2021 using Ithal, an online framework for text formatting. The tei  (p5) encoded xml has been generated from the same LaTeX sources using LuaLaTeX. html version has been generated from the xml using xslt stylesheet (en-tei-html.xsl) developed by CV Radhakrkishnan in combination with the free home edition of Saxon processor for xslt v. 10.5.

Fonts:  The basefont used in pdf and html versions is Cormorant Garamond  developed by Christian Thalmann, a type designer based in Zurich, Switzerland. The title and headings are with Cormorant sc ; the catchline and the footer make use of Cormorant Upright developed by the same designer.

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