काव्य-शास्त्र-विनोद

Original Marathi posts:  हलकल्लोळ - १  and  हलकल्लोळ - २  combined into one. English translation by Amita Joshi . Have you ever thought, how eerily we associate definite shapes to all the objects? Our houses are always quadrangular, so are our books. Our computers too are of a definite shape. Everywhere everything is either quadrangular, triangular or circular. But is the natural earth surface so uniform? Absolutely not. It is uneven and bobbing. Nevertheless, we human beings do put extra efforts to make it levelled. We level deep pits, Weather Mountains and erode them physically. But this is something unnatural. None of the nature’s creations fits into these standard shapes. Which mountain is perfectly triangular or conical? Are clouds restricted to a specific shape? Never. Neither do our body parts have any of these explicit forms. Hardly any of these irregular forms is covered in theoretical geometry. In the efforts of simplifying everything...