Thursday, March 29, 2012

Bharati Bhavan Library, Chowk, Allahabad. Comments

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A day in 1923.
The reading room is full.
In pin-dropp silence,
Accountants, homoeopaths,
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
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Bijay Kant Dubey 21 August 2020

The poem is a library room view where he observes the lending of books, the tastes of the visitors, their reading habits and silence expected from asking not to disturb and old pale books telling of anonymous writerly presence written long ago or translated.

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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Lahore / British India (Pakistan)
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