Sunday, November 1, 2009

Paper 1

















In older times
They wrote
On The leaves
On the bhojpatra
On the palm leaves
On the chest of trees
On the rocks
On the animal skins
On the copper.
All four Vedas, too,
were written
On bhojpatra.


They wrote
black richas of terror
On my body
Even today…




From ‘Pencil aur doosri nazmein’
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