# Walking the Road

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**Author:** P. Devarajan
 **Pages:** 52 **Year of Publication:** 2011 **Price:**
HB Rs 100 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-016-1 (9789350450161)

_**About the Author**_
 P. Devarajan was born on June 26, 1947 in Kottarakara Village(
Kollam district). Soon afterwards, his family moved to Calcutta where he grew up.
In 1970 he moved to Mumbai and has lived there since. He has worked as a business
journalist with _The Times of India, Business Standard, Financial Express_ and _The
Hindu_‘s _Business Line_. He takes a strong interest in wildlife and ecology and
has written articles on environmental concerns facing India for _The Hindu_. Devarajan’s_**
Some Poems 2009**_ and _**Living in Borivili**_ were published by **Writers Workshop**,
India in 2010. You can read more poems by him on his blog by clicking [here](http://glassofrum.blogspot.in/).

_**Teaser**_

_31_

Cycling Link Road, my friend
 pauses under a badam tree beside two laburnums, observing
dark, maroon leaves styling the air to rest on a tarred floor. Born sturdy in a 
factory when cars were scarce, the cycle has an old soul, yet a soul, unlike city
man with an internal combustion engine. Except for an occasional flat tyre, a quaint
clink, it has had no repairs. It was the first, owned cycle in Verur village. Father
bought the cycle when my friend passed matriculation, third class. His mother took
the cycle to the temple for the Lord’s goodwill. That evening, my friend took Gayatri,
doubles. Friends mocked when he cycled the city. Changed to a Merc and drives it
like a cycle. In Verur village, cycle signalled wealth; in the city, a nobody. Change
has not civilised any.

_**Contents**_
 31 untitled poems