The Mountain is Calling

“The mountain has its wisdom. None recognizes it. Its wisdom is its stillness and silence... its balance is its steadiness; its strength is its eternal calmness.”

“The mountain, ancient, timeless and primitive, paradoxically drops its wisdom through its immensity of silence as the poet approaches”

“The mountain speaks with audacity, conviction and appeal its wisdom of eternity, taking the seeker along a mystical journey of revelations.... with metaphors, similes and symbols in cryptogrammic language”

"Highly reflective and meditative poems of wisdom from the pen of mystical poet K.V.Raghupathi, the author of Voice of the Valley, Wisdom of the Peepal Tree, Samarpana and Dispersed Symphonies”

About the Author: K. V. Raghupathi, a Ph.d holder in English Literature, writes in English. He is a poet, short story writer, novelist, book reviewer and critic. An Indian author best known for his poetry in English language. His poetry is rooted in the abundance of philosophy, nature, transcendentalism, imagery and social perspectives, and replete with similes, metaphors, personifications, apostrophe, irony, climax, anti-climax and full of rhetoric and symbols. More often he takes the readers on the spiritual exploration of radical philosophical thoughts which strongly speak through all the collections. He is currently teaching at Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur. His other passions include classical Karnatic music and Yoga. He began writing seriously in 1985. Since then he has published eleven books in English Verse, two novels, and two collections of short stories. His poems and short stories have appeared in various newspapers like The Hindu, The Statesman, Print journals and on-line journals.

He is a recipient of several awards that include Michael Madhusudhan Dutt Award, Kolkata in 2001, H.D.Thoreau Fellowship, Dhvanyaloka, Mysore in 2000, the best chosen poet for 2003, Poetry Society of India, New Delhi Poetry Chain, Mumbai, Life Time Achievement Award, Chennai Poetry Circle, Chennai in 2010, Rock Pebbles National Award for creativity, 2014, Bhubaneswar and Phrasal King Arbind Choudhary National Award for Poetry, Mahatama Gandhi Education and Welfare Society, Parbhani, Maharastra; and two awards in Yoga, Best Yogic Publication of the Year Award, 2018, and Lifetime Achievement Award in Yoga, 2018, New Delhi.