The daughter of a fanatic,
Have you thought of
As your love?
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A Japanese girl,
How beautiful is she!
A doll from Japan
And with her
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O, you tell me about the Jainas and their Jainism,
Lord Mahavira and his Jainism,
Born to King Sidhartha and Queen Trishala
At Kundalagrama (modern Hajipur) ,
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Opening with the first poem named Dawn,
It continues on
With the poems,
As thus,
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Shiv K. Kumar, it’s true that you too a Lahorian,
One from Rawalpindi, Peshawar or Lahore
Just like Keshav Malik, K.N.Daruwalla, Mulk Raj Anand, Khushwant Singh,
Krishan Chander, Bhisham Sahni and Rajinder Singh Bedi,
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To talk of the northeast of India is to talk of the indigeous,
Indigeneous people and indigenous culture,
Tribal and aboriginal
With a diversity,
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Whenever I see, you appear to be a blooming lotus,
A lotus blooming
With the pearly dews splashed over
And with,
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There is nothing in history,
Just the historians like to take the credit from,
Full of treachery, loot, plunder and destruction,
The barbarians taking time to finish it all
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The phantoms of time speaking
In the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra
As the silent listeners
And the unknown horse-rider
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