Visions of today: Nov 2008http://indiawritingstation.com/a-new-vision-souls-on-fire/Nov. 4, 2008: the happiest day in 32 years as an American citizen. Plus: Short Story link: Naga in the Negev.en-US2012-02-07T02:57:41ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Visions from Far and Near: Souls on Firehttp://indiawritingstation.com/a-new-vision-souls-on-fire/2008/11/29/visions-from-far-and-near-souls-on-fire.htmlMichael Chacko Daniels2008-11-30T07:21:55ZMorning in Santiniketan

I have a new book out: a beautifully handcrafted book of 51 haiku, "Morning in Santiniketan," published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata.

In this book of fifty-one haiku, my poetic journey starts with “Morning in Santiniketan” in West Bengal, India.

Santiniketan, or abode of peace, is a small town in the Indian state of West Bengal.

There in the early 1900s, Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore started a progressive school set in a natural environment; his goal was to stimulate joy in learning.

The place and time where each of the fifty-one haiku in this book took form were a Shantiniketan for me.

~A Review excerpt~

(From the review by Melanie Daniels (no relation), April 8, 2011, in Hackwriters at the bottom of the following page: http://www.hackwriters.com/Zach.htm)

“Each evening a few of us read aloud our favorite haiku from Morning in Santiniketan to each other. When I asked one friend which one was her favorite, she replied that if she sat with any one of these haiku that it would become her favorite. That’s high praise!”

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