# Silver-Painted Gandhi & Other Poems

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- Published: 2015-07-19T17:50:25+00:00
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**Author:** Jose Varghese
 **Pages:** 99 **Price:** HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 **Year 
of Publication:** 2008 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-725-2 (9788181577252) FB 978-81-
8157-726-9 (9788181577269)

_**About the Author:**_
 Jose Varghese (b 1976) is an English teacher by profession.
He is currently engaged in research on Indian Fiction in English and post-colonial
studies. A few of his poems and research articles have appeared in journals and 
books.

_**Teaser:**_

_River Tawi_

You come to the city of temples
 with a clean conscience and flow amidst the frightened
masses clinging to idols

You let their miseries reflect clear
 on your translucent sheets as they try to 
wash off dreadful memories and unseen remorse from their weary feet, scrubbing hard
on your fossil rock remnants

You receive all foggy grime amassed
 through the long winter, and muddle up the 
colour of blood that escapes from their nightmares into your baffling brownness,
and let woeful tears flow along, fully contaminating your spirit, as you spiral 
the fury flowing from the guns that have to protect gods.

_**Contents:**_

Silver Painted Gandhi / 9
 Of Guns and Birds / 12 River Tawi / 14 Moon Story / 15
Snake Love / 16 First English Word / 17 Glued to the Golden Notebook / 20 Dance /
23 Betrayal / 24 Friends / 25 Fetish / 27 Tradition and Passion / 28 Heavenly Dilemma/
29 Distances / 30 The Last Gift / 31 Swim Alone / 32 Tree of Despair / 33 Vision/
34 Love Life / 36 Kissed too Early / 37 Self-Doubts / 38 Dream of a Donkey / 39 
Self-Pity / 40 Monsoon Musings / 41 Fishing my Feelings / 42 Games of Passion / 
43 Don’t Kill / 44 Doom / 45 Toys / 46 Dethroned / 47 Rebirth / 48 Queen / 49 Do
You Remember? / 51 Waiting / 53 What Really Happened / 54 Listening to Me / 55 Fall/
56 Autumn Stroller / 57 Self-Made Distress / 58 Foul game / 59 Seeing You / 60 Caught
on Flight / 61 Formless Friendship / 62 Come to Us / 63 Flying Safe with You / 64
Separation / 66 Fill Me, Fantasy / 67 Burn so Bright / 68 Escape Deep / 69 Revealed/
70 Sweet Summer Moment / 71 Deshoesed / 73 Summer Snowfall / 74 Exile / 76 Release/
78 Words / 79 Remembrance / 80 Yearnings of Winter / 81 Stop Searching / 82 Reflections/
83 Strings / 83 Of Peace, in Times Like These / 84 Why? / 87 Waiting for Life / 
88 Blue / 89 Red / 90 Red Reed Blood / 91 Darkness Visible / 92 Black / 93 On My
Ugliness / 94 White / 95 You / 96 Yellow / 98 The Colour of Insanity / 99