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- How much do you make?
- Fifteen rupees a month
:18:09
Didn't you learn to type?
:18:11
Yes, I thought it might be useful
:18:13
Good. I'll get you a job
as soon as we return
:18:17
Where are we going?
:18:21
You'll come with me to my cousin
Aparna's wedding on Monday
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- Where?
- Just for a few days
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- But where?
- Khulna.
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Khulna!
It's a hundred miles away
:18:34
You'll love it there
:18:37
An old-world village,
a lovely river with boats on it
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Fields of grass and paddy.
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Bamboo groves, mango orchards
:18:49
Doesn't it tempt you?
:18:53
Trees full of birds:
Magpies, thrushes, nightingales
:18:58
And in the evening,
fireflies and oil lamps aglow
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No electricity
:19:04
Doesn't it sound tempting?
:19:09
You'll come, won't you?
:19:14
Take me back to thy lap,
O Mother Earth
:19:18
Take back thy son and wrap him
n thine ample robe
:19:23
Let me be one with the soil,
and spread myself
:19:29
Far and wide,
like the joys of spring,
:19:31
let me burst the heart's narrow cage
:19:34
reak down the stonewalls of self
and the cheerless prison of the mind
:19:40
To rush forth in a rapture of delight
:19:43
And flow to the far ends of the earth,
:19:46
surging, billowing, rolling on
:19:50
A policeman
:19:52
Who's there?
:19:53
Am Mainaak,
son of the Himalayas,
:19:57
hiding my wings in the sea