Jayanta's The False Start appeared from a poet's enterprise
Called Clearing House, Bombay in 1980
And it's a book of poems to be reckoned with,
Starting from the poem,
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Will life come to a close
As they keep saying about the heat wave and the cold wave
Taking their toll by turn,
The soaring temperature
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Partition's stitched people
Telling teior tales
Of re-knotting of ties
And re-settlements
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Asiatic lion,
Indian lion,
The bulky-bodied
Sturdy beast,
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Background, Casually is just a way of introducing oneself which the poet is trying to do it here in this poem.
How to introduce oneself in a novel way? How to be acquainted with?
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Tajikistan,
Where is it Tajikistan,
How to go there,
How the history and culture of it,
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Give me food, food,
Food to satisfy my hunger,
Give me water, water,
Water to quench my thirst,
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Taking to Kenya,
Kenyan history and politics,
Society and people,
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Jayanta Mahapatra's Grass,
Making me remembered of
W.B.Yeats' An Acre of Grass,
Philip Larkin's's At Grass,
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