Naveena Pasmasuran
or
The Ashen Touch
Ho! Ho! …………….
Oh! The peacefulness of the mountains, the loneliness of the rivers!
Ho! Alfa………
Ho! Beta………
Ho! Gama…….
Ho! Neutron …….
Ho! …………….
Ho! …………..
Oh! The wind, the sound ……
The ocean of antiquity ………
Oh! Fire the symbol of justice
Ho! …...Uranium ………
Ho! ….. Plutonium……
Ho! ….. Deuterium …….
Ho! ….. Ho… Ho…
Pasmasuran is doing penance
Pasmasuran is doing severe penance
He is lying on hedges.
He is standing on one foot with the arms stretched out.
He stares at the Sun with his naked eyes.
By the power of his penance the world of Indra has lost its pomp.
Devas in fear have hidden in dark dungeons.
He has chained the wind.
The guards of the eight directions have surrendered to him.
The queen of the oceans was incarcerated.
The stars have lost their sight by the power of his penance.
The sons of the mountains have lost themselves to him.
Danger…… Danger………
Oh! People of the earth……. danger…….
(Ho….. ho……. ho……)
(God Shiva appears)
God Siva: I’m pleased with your power of penance.
I’m so pleased with your penance. It’s fit to shatter the three worlds.
(Pasmasuran bows to God Shiva)
God Siva: What boon do you want?
Tell me! It shall be given.
(Pasmasuran sings)
Came you for me my Lord
To give me a boon
Came you for me my Lord?
Pleased by my penance
To give me a boon
Came you for me my lord?
Bless me with a boon my lord – oh lord
Bless me with one my Lord
To swoop the world and Keep in my hand
Bless me with a boon my lord - oh lord
Bless me with one my Lord
God Shiva: what boon do you want?
Ask it shall be given.
Pasmasuran: All that I touch should become ashes my lord.
I want that ashen touch my Lord.
God Siva: Here, have it. Whatever you touch shall become ashes!
(The chanting of E= mc2 rises up high in the air)
Song:
Here comes the King Pasmasuran
Here comes the one blessed with the boon.
Pasmasuran is our great King
He did great penance and got many boons
In arrogance he changed the boon to curse
And did perish in the end.
Here comes the King Pasmasuran
Here comes the one blessed with the boon.
Scientists the greatest scholars
Through penance got the boon of nuclear power
The nuclear power of Science is creative
But in the war it’s immensely destructive.
Here comes the King Pasmasuran
Here comes the one blessed with the boon.
Pasmasuran is our great King
He did great penance and got many boons
In arrogance he changed the boons into curse
And did perish in the end.
Here comes the King Pasmasuran
Here comes the one blessed with the boon.
With one big bang
Came the holocaust
Babes and birds
Wailed and wept.
Here comes the King Pasmasuran
Here comes the one blessed with the boon.
Pasmasuran:
Got the boon to raze the world
I'm the King of Kings unrivalled
Is there anyone to challenge me?
I'm the leader blessed ever to be.
Pasmasuran:
I am the one who got the boon of "Ashen touch".
I know all the secrets of the nuclear power.
I know how to create a world without human beings.
Only buildings will remain.
Trees, bushes, creepers, grass, animals human beings everything will perish.
Every thing will perish.
One and only one bomb would do.
Our Sun will be dead.
Darkness of death will shroud and devour us all.
All our stars will fall down burnt.
Our entire river will be poisoned.
Our seas will freeze to immobility.
Smoke will rise up like a giant mushroom
Under which will exist my rule.
(Song)
The hero of heroes I am
The almighty King
The all powerful scientist I am.
Mightiest the most fortunate
Mightiest the most fortunate
The fittest survive
The non-fits perish
Mightiest the most fortunate
He who owns the nuclear power
Rules the world for ever.
E equals mc2 …. E equals mc2 …
Song:
The hero of heroes I am
The almighty King.
The all powerful scientist I am!
Pasmasuran: There is atomic bomb in my possession. Summon God Shiva.
God Siva: I'm here Pasmasura. I am present everywhere at any time.
Pasmasuran: Come near me. Let me test the boon first on you.
God Siva: Wait Pasmasura….. Wait' don’t make the boon a curse.
Don't be in a hurry
Don't become arrogant.
Pasmasuran: Nay, I take it to my advantage.
E equals mc2….. E equals mc2….
(Pasmasuran leaps at God Shiva. god Shiva runs away. The chase continues.
Chanting of the lines is heard in the background.)
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Nagasaki Hiroshima
Acid Rain Acid Rain
Acid Rain Acid Rain
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Nagasaki Hiroshima
Nuclear leak of Chernobyl
Atomic disaster in North Carolina
Even in the space the menace spreads
Subcontinents too face the threats.
All over the space the missiles hover
Impact of radioactivity the world over
Hiroshima Nagasaki….
Nagasaki Hiroshima……
Hiroshima…. Nagasaki…..
Hiroshima…. Nagasaki…..
Black Rain… Black Rain….
Black Rain… Black Rain….
God Siva:
Kali Yugam….. Kali Yugam…..
The time when boons become curse…
The time when boons become curse….
World full of vices
God Siva:
Boons turn out to be curse
Boons turn out to be curse
God Siva:
Kali Yugam…. Kali Yugam..
Boons have become curse
Virtue has declined
Wisdom has deteriorated
Vision has dimmed
Voice your protests
Call for humanism,
Are we going to bear the unbearable?
Or to avoid it?
Lend your ears
To the call of intellect
Raise your protests
Call for benevolence.
To safeguard the good
To destroy the evil
To re-establish virtue and righteousness
I will be born age after age.
(The chanting of Sanskrit Slogan is heard in the background.)
Let a new world blossom up
Let another world burgeon.
If another world war breaks out
There will be no one in this earth
To sing Elegy
To erect monuments in memory
To raise protests
Or to wake up the awareness.
Let a new world blossom up
Let another world burgeon.
The survival of the Earth is
At the mercy of a few buttons…
The fate of this world is
In the hands of a few people.
Let the fire flare up
We invoke benevolence in it
We invoke freedom in it]
For the Earth and Sky to
Flourish and prosper!
(Song):
March forward will we
March forward will we
Getting rid of the nuclear arms
March forward will we
Devoid of power hunger
March forward will we
For all lives to live in peace
March forward will we
For the whole world to flourish
March forward will we.
Dialogue begins...
* A version for one person performance.
Full Legnth Play Written in Thamil By.M. Nilanthan and Directed by S.Jeyasankar
Translation in English by Mr. T. Kirupacaran
** Thirdeye is performing this play from 1992
It was performed in Thamil, English and as Bilingual (Thamil& English)
S.Jeyasankar
