Celebrations

Makar Sankranti.................................................................................................................. 3

Holi....................................................................................................................................... 5

Ramadan............................................................................................................................. 7

Raksha Bandhan................................................................................................................ 9

Krishna Janmashtami...................................................................................................... 11

Onam................................................................................................................................. 13

Ganesha Chaturthi.......................................................................................................... 14

Navaratri........................................................................................................................... 17

Deepavali.......................................................................................................................... 19

Christmas.......................................................................................................................... 21

Culture

Bharatanatyam................................................................................................................. 25

Kathakali............................................................................................................................ 27

Konark Sun Temple.......................................................................................................... 29

Kuchipudi........................................................................................................................... 31

Mahabalipuram................................................................................................................ 33

Odissi.................................................................................................................................. 35

Taj Mahal............................................................................................................................ 37

Tanjore Temple.................................................................................................................. 39

The Golden Temple........................................................................................................... 41

Varanasi.............................................................................................................................. 43

Curiosity

Asima Chatterjee.............................................................................................................. 47

Chanakya........................................................................................................................... 49

Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.................................................................................................... 51

G.D. Naidu......................................................................................................................... 53

Satyendra Nath Bose....................................................................................................... 55

Sir C.V. Raman.................................................................................................................. 57

Sir M. Visvesvaraya........................................................................................................... 59

Srinivasa Ramanujan........................................................................................................ 61

Sushruta............................................................................................................................ 63

Vikram Sarabhai............................................................................................................... 65

Courage

Abhimanyu........................................................................................................................ 69

Bhagat Singh..................................................................................................................... 71

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ........................................................................................... 73

Gandivadhari Arjuna ....................................................................................................... 75

Lord Karthikeya ................................................................................................................ 77

Lord Rama ......................................................................................................................... 79

Parashuram ....................................................................................................................... 81

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel .................................................................................................. 83

Tantia Tope ......................................................................................................................... 85

Veerapandiya Kattaboman ............................................................................................... 87

Compassion

Buddha ............................................................................................................................... 91

Dedicated Teachers........................................................................................................... 93

Padma Shri Dr. K V Thiruvenkatam ................................................................................. 95

Dr. Verghese Kurien ........................................................................................................... 97

Lal Bahadur Shastri ........................................................................................................... 99

Mahatma Gandhi ............................................................................................................. 101

Mother .............................................................................................................................. 102

Mother Teresa .................................................................................................................. 105

Raja Ram Mohan Roy ...................................................................................................... 107

Savitri Bai Phule ............................................................................................................... 109

Sharvesh is an enthusiastic litterateur and is deeply smitten by the works of Rick Riordan and Roshani Chokshi. A voracious reader, he loves expressing his feelings and thoughts in the form of poems and short stories. His literary ventures, since the age of 8, have been shaped up into blog posts at https://pgsharvesh.blogspot.com/. Sharvesh harbours tremendous maturity, a positive outlook, and a unique and original perspective for the things and happenings all around. Inspired by life under the new normal, he took to weave this poetry collection expressing his appreciation and joy for life and living.