An Interview With Jayanta Mahapatra/ How Do They Take The Interview Of Jayanta Mahapatra? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

They, I mean, the research scholar and the college teacher
Go to meet him
Under the pretext of writing the dissertation
And meeting him not,
But to take the interview,
Not to keep it private,
But to publicize it
With the joint photos
released on
Which but is a gross repudiation of hospitality.

Meet him, but take not the interview to gain from,
To post and publicize it on the internet
To show that Jayanta knows you
And you an expert on him and his poetry.