# An Indian Evening and Other Poems

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**Author:** Meenakshi S. Thakur
 **Pages:** 75 **Year of Publication:** 2003 **Price:**
HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 **ISBN:** HB 81-85299-63-3 (8185299633) FB 81-85200-64-1 (8185200641)

**_About the Author_**
 Meenakshi Singh Thakur was born in Ipswitch, England in 
1981 while her father, a physician, was working for the National Health Service 
of Britain. She was brought up in Patna where her father later practised. She graduated
in English from Patna Women’s College (Patna University). She also writes in Hindi
and has an anthology of Hindi poems, _Jab Utthi Yavanika_ to her credit.

**_ Teaser _**

_A Hundred Suns Do I Embrace!_

Under the mellowness
 of the dimly glowing sun awakes the city lazily softly shelving
the misty dreams soothing touch draping the visions emanating looming gleams shining
over the myriads of silvery shallowness dispersing the night hiding the moon behind
the sun I forget all woes and shout aloud The sun…the sun!

Rising from the dark
 stark starry gloom life walks afresh on the city roads the
soft ochre glow fills up each being life smiles at us takes a deep breath still 
hushed and low gets the firmament moulded, for a moment in gold, still another in
orange enfolded

pieces of sunlight
 bathed in gold pour into the city as the day enfolds a light
so dazzling a glaze unparalleled palms stretched across I feel the warmth and close
my eyes and dream, I dream with grace glimmers of a vital new face the face of the
sun, I see a hundred suns do I embrace.

**_Contents_**
 A Hundred Suns Do I Embrace! / 11 Untitled / 13 Untitled / 15 Rebirth/
17 Afternoon Musings / 19 Shadows / 20 I Hear the Lights… / 22 Awakening / 24 All
Water / 25 Miles to Go / 27 A Morning by the Sea / 29 Watching the Sea One Afternoon/
33 Distant Voices / 35 I Speak to Walls and Spaces / 37 Eternal Flight / 39 An Old
Room in an Old House / 41 The Night-Watcher / 43 Castles of Sand / 45 5th July /
46 An Indian Evening / 47 Visions in Ink / 48 Excavation Site / 49 Dream-Shelf /
50 Nights in Winter / 51 On the Sea Shore / 52 Maple Leaves / 53 Life Saunters On…/
54 In a Railway Carriage / 55 Winter Morn / 56 The Kali Temple, Darbhanga House /
57 Village-house backyard / 58 Dreams / 59 Strings of Life / 60 The Racing City /
61 Last Lines of an Old Poet / 62 Silence Alive / 67 Behind the Blinds / 68 Two 
Eyes and a Few Tears / 69 Waiting for the Warrior / 70 Burning Embers in the Fireplace…/
71 At a Music Concert / 73 Wheel of Time / 74 Creations / 75