# Autumn Leaves

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- Published: 2015-07-19T19:29:29+00:00
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**Author:** Amrinder Bajaj
 **Pages:** 124 **Year of Publication:** 2012 **Price:**
Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-030-7 (9789350450307)

_**About the Author:**_
 A gynaecologist and gold medallist from the All India Institute
of Medical Sciences, Dr. Bajaj began writing poems that won literary prizes in medical
college. Apart from poetry, she has written short stories, articles and travelogues
for the magazine, _Woman’s Era_. Her short stories have also been published in _The
Telegraph_. She is the author of the wellness books, _Sailing Smoothly through Pregnancy_
for pregnant women and _The Adolescent Girl_ which focuses on educating girls about
reproductive health. Dr. Bajaj lives in New Delhi.

_**Teaser:**_

_Delhi_

Clinging to the banks of
 A soiled and sullied Jamuna Like a child on a beggar’s
hip Suckling on her withered breast Can this be the face of Delhi?

Domes, minars and monuments.
 Footprints of eras bygone; history Written with blood
on stone On a sun-baked tablet. Can this Be, the signature of Delhi?

A spring-intoxicated maiden
 In swirling grass-green skirts, Bedecked with fragrant
flowers, Can this dancing damsel be The spirit of Delhi?

Where stakes are high and scruples low,
 And the deadly game of power is played 
Where governments rise and fall In a ruthless bid for supremacy Can this gambling
den be Delhi?

Where taps run dry and sewers flood
 Where cows laze on pot-holed roads Where smoke
smears gray upon the sky And lungs crave for a breath of air Can this death-trap
be Delhi?

To each his own perception
 Of the kaleidoscope Called Delhi. As to the Blind men
the elephant, To each his own Delhi.

_**Contents:**_
 102 poems