‘a speck of dust hanging/in a vertical wall of light.’ ( Letter from the Hills ) - Amit Chaudhuri

Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.

(Tagore is) 'making a statement of fact, just as the remembered lines from a child’s primer (jal pare/pata nare’; rain falls/the leaf trembles) that first drew Tagore to poetry state a fact. Here, Tagore seems to be telling us that no afflatus or elaboration is necessary, because the world is at its most compelling as it is.’

I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.