Knitting Love



A view of the dolls created by Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee



Faces covered, yet not hidden

From the naked eyes, as

Each strings of the eternal

Thread of love and care, bind one another!

Shades of laughter, of sadness, of gravity

Of silence – visible and remarkable;

 There’s different colour, living and sharing

With one another – playing with each strings of

The thread of life – of shades of grey, white, black, red and green!

Those hands that’ve woven each strings

With flowering thoughts, have filled

Many a lives, with colours, bright and blue!

The bangles making sweet chimes across the

Threads that weave magic with needles which

Swirl around the clothes – red, blue and black,

Old, yet fresh…

White cottons smile, as they watch and

Feel the thread that they yield, proudly,

Matching their little strings

With colours of love and hope!

As they stand, as they smile,

As they relax, they watch, as

Movements grow from rhythm to rhythm

Growing from sweet to somber, knitting love;

Finery, woven, as they evolve…!

My dolls, my shades, my likes,

My colours, my silence; woven, felt and nurtured!

(Rajdeep Pathak)

April 24, 2013

(A tribute to the Artist, Smt Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, as she weaves relations and feeling through her dolls).