Flowering Of A Lotus brought out in 1998
From Meerut by the poet himself
Is a book of verse
Written in the Miltonic,
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The man whom I read it not, knew it not,
But just heard about,
Charles Tomlinson the professor
And the writer of critical essays,
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On International Women's Day
Talked I to Burqawalli,
Miss/ Mrs. Burqa-clad.
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Purdahwalli,
Ghunghatawalli,
Burkhawalli
Bibis,
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A portrait of an artist,
The artist as a young man,
Young man not, old man,
Old man not, young man,
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Nissim's patriot
A Gandhian patriot,
I mean
A freedom fighter
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King Asoka would have washed off
His bloody hands
Into the ever fresh waters
Of the River Daya
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Adi Shankaracharya
His story of Brahmacharya,
Love for his mother,
Shiva-bhakta father,
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Jayanta as a tourist guide
And we travelling with
And he telling about
The temples of Orissa,
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