# Light through a Labyrinth

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**Author:** Vivek Mishra (Translated by Amrita Bera)
 **Pages:** 106 **Year of Publication:**
2009 **Price:** HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-885-3 (9788181578853)
FB 978-81-8157-886-0 (9788181578860)

_**About the Author**_
 Vivek Mishra was born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh and the contrasting
experiences of living in both a semi-urban town and a metropolitan city have greatly
influenced his poems. His poems and ghazals address a wide range of issues such 
as poverty, the impact of globalization on smaller towns, ecological destruction
and politics. He has written two collections of poetry, _Maati Ka Gumbad_ and _Bol
Utthe Hain Chitra_, a collection of ghazals, _Duniya Ek Samandar Hai_ and a compilation
of short stories, _Hania Tatha Anya Kahaniyan_. He has also written a number of 
documentaries. At present, he lives with his family in Delhi.

_**About the Translator**_
 Born in Kolkata, Amrita Bera later settled down in Delhi.
She is trained in Indian vocal music (primarily ghazals). Her interests include 
reading, writing, music and traveling. This is her first published work of translations.

_**Teaser**_

_Shadows_

On the shore of
 a pond, against a rock, two shadows were sitting side by side, 
each for itself.

One sat there,
 with a bowl in hands rolling balls of dough, swatting them in the
water.

The other sat there,
 with bait on the fish-hook for the fish to fall prey.

Each had an
 arduous need of fish, for its own self.

The pond was but
 devoid of fishes, why? The shadows were unaware.

_**Contents**_

POEMS / 9-76

Cold-wave / 11
 Desire / 14 Sunshine / 16 Remote / 17 Burger / 19 Identity / 23 
Hunger / 24 Mango Grove / 26 The Growth / 29 Shadows / 31 Vacuum / 32 Stone / 33
Graveyard / 35 Shoe / 39 Light the cig from my heart / 41 Clouds / 43 Parijaat /
45 Come-back / 47 Euro clean / 49 Aids ward / 51 A third person / 52 Razor’s edge/
54 House / 56 Longing / 59 A failed poet / 60 Desire – II / 62 After that day / 
63 A Face / 70 A Nightmare / 72 Four Seasons / 74

GHAZALS

1 to 20 / 77-100