# Leopards & Other Poems

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**Author:** Ratan Chouhan
 **Pages:** 41 **Price:** HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 **Year of
Publication:** 2008 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-741-2 (9788181577412) FB 978-81-8157-
742-9 (9788181577429)

_**About the Author:**_
 Born into a family of farmers in 1945 in the village of
Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, Ratan Chouhan taught English Literature at the Government
College of Arts and Science, Ratlam. Chouhan writes in Hindi and English. His two
books of poems, originally written in Hindi, have appeared in 1996 and 2000. Two
more books written in English have been published from Trayee Prakashan, Ratlam 
and **Writers Workshop**. He has translated his own writing profusely.

_**Teaser:**_

_Blaze_

She was a schoolgirl
 and was wearing a rainbow. Her hair had a ribbon or there 
blossomed a sun-flower on her back. She was a wind hurrying home on her bike.

Life was threadbare
 and the trees barren and murky. She blazed like a piece of 
red flannel in that dark winter.

Sometimes foggy and sometimes transparent
 the stream flowed and the years died 
into centuries but the Unchanging girl kept dancing with the waves and singing with
the pebbles.

She was a school girl
 and was wearing a rainbow.

_**Contents:**_
 Leopards / 9 Blaze / 11 Unforgettable meeting / 12 The woman in
the kitchen / 13 Encounter / 14 Salvation / 15 Resonance / 16 Thirst / 17 Boughs
of evening / 18 The days have flitted past / 19 The dancing boy / 20 Home-coming/
21 Fire fighters / 22 The last visit to the library / 23 The homeless / 24 Betrayal/
24 The sky was a hollow blue / 26 Sikakai / 27 Carcass / 28 Trance / 30 A storm 
of rain again / 31 Denying your world / 32 The great moon of January / 33 Concern/
34 Benjamin Malaise / 35 Packing / 36 Tearing off / 37 The earth / 39 I saw that
child / 40 She wrote to me / 41