Tathagatam

This is a poem dedicated to Ravindran, Chinta Ravi to those who knew him, first read on the occasion of his first death anniversary at Kozhikode, Kerala. Ravi was broadly Leftist in his political views, but also had a great spiritual affinity for Buddhism. He was an activist, a newsman, TV journalist, travelogue writer, essayist, avid reader and a committed film maker with friends all over India.