Best Researcher Academician Jazan University English Department 2018

Dear friends , 
Happy to inform you that Jazan University has given me the BEST RESEARCHER/ACADEMICIAN AWARD of 2018 of the English Department presented to me by the Dean, and Vice Deans of Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Abu Arish College, Jazan, Saudi Arabia. First time ever, so I also enter (their) history. Reward for seven years of non stop hard work.
Also that the President of the University received from me gifts of my/our books Scream and Other Urbane Legends by Dr Koshy AV and LiFi PublicationsSilhouette I & II And Other Short Stories featuring Eternal Linksand Allusions to Simplicity by Authorspress: Publishers of Scholarly Books. Could not give the other books not having them.

Resurrection Day

Copyright Koshy AV

After the battles
after the wars
after the arrest, 'the torchlight red on sweaty faces'
after the betrayals, the denials, the trial
after the scourging, the spit and the mocking
after the falling, the weight, and the hoisting
after the desertions, and death, e'erything marred
despite the nails and the crown of thorns
despite the spear in the side and the wounds bleeding
despite the dark grave after the dying

After the thinning of the hair
After becoming more and more bald
After the black becoming the grey
After the paunch and the becoming ugly
After being one step closer each minute
To the fall of the final curtain for all

Despite everything
despite everyone
despite hunger, thirst, loneliness, grief, suffering and gall
despite the hurt, the pain, the sweat and the tears
despite it all
I find myself, still standing tall
far from the strife, the din and the fray
Despite fighting face to face
with the evil one who wanted to destroy me
I still have come to Resurrection Day
My feet have not stumbled, I did not fall
It was the stone that was rolled away
I am the Truth, the Life and the Way
The light of the world
Let no one now say
'Beyond here lies nothing'
It is a 'new morning'
"Fear not." Over such ones death no more has sway.