Hamlets Today Poem by DR KUSUMITA MUKHERJEE

I wonder, do hamlets still exist?
Have not the satellite television
Or the 3G robbed us of them?
Do places with people exist?
Not automations.
But the humblest creations of God?

Where there is doubt at every juncture
Can there be guarantee?
Yet the vision exists.
As it had hundreds of years ago.
No doubt technology has encroached
But humanity persists.

A middle-aged woman calling home her darling ducklings;
A robust granddaddy admonishing the lazy youth;
Shy smiles of teenage girls bathing in the Ganges;
Two women working listlessly in a granary- - stop and greet.

Rustics are the soul of these hamlets.
But for them poets wouldn't be.