# The Invaders and Other Indian Poems

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**Author:** Vera Sharma
 **Pages:** 52 **Year of Publication:** 2000 **Price:** 
HB Rs 100, FB Rs 60 **ISBN:** HB 81-7595-756-5 (817595756-5) FB 81-7595-757-3 (8175957573)

**_About the Author:_**
 Vera Sharma was the daughter of Dr. Shridar Vyankatesh 
Ketkar, the first Marathi encyclopaedist, and his wife, Shilavatibai Ketkar, a schoolteacher
and German translator. She worked in Information Service and journalism in India
and the USA. Her work has been published in many journals around the world, and 
she has won many prizes. Many of her short stories have appeared in translation 
by her daughter, Dr. Sunita Sharma, in leading Marathi magazines. Vera Sharma passed
away in the early hours of 20 May 2000, due to kidney failure. She had patiently
borne her long illness.

**_Teaser:_**

_The Invaders_

When people leave their countries
 As adventurers or immigrants In search of shelter
in times of war, More money in times of peace, Their culture on their backs like
snails. They invade someone else’s land.

The British brought churches with them.
 They made little Englands in our country.
Dadabhai Naoroji fought against the British Usurping jobs that Indians could do,
Against money going to Britain.

A hundred odd years later
 The British unemployed resent Jobs taken from them by
Indians.

We have built temples
 And mosques in Britain We work there and send our money home.
We are making mini-Indias everywhere. The time came when we said “Quit India”. Will
we be told to ‘Quit Britain”?

Why can’t people
 “Do in Rome as Romans Do?” Shed the shells off their backs. Mix
with the people in the new country. Otherwise stay where they belong. Help to build
a better India.

**_ Contents:_**
 The Invaders / 9 Keeping the Peace / 10 A Mother / 11 The Perfect
Wife / 12 Once a Home / 13 Silences / 14 Conscience / 15 Domesticity / 16 Cancer/
17 Insanity / 18 East Meets West / 19 Aging Women / 20 The Captive Butterfly / 21
Our Almond Tree / 22 Roots / 24 Queen of the Night / 25 Wild Flowers / 26 Karma /
27 The Break of the Monsoon / 29 Indian Eventide / 31 Rain / 32 Storm / 33 Childhood/
34 Darkness / 35 Winter / 36 The Karela / 37 Modern Eve / 38 Mad Dog / 39 Refugees/
40 The Rag Picker / 41 The Cripple / 42 Chasnala / 43 The Hand-Cart Puller / 44 
This Bombay / 45 Death / 47 If / 48 Trauma / 49 Memories / 50 The Grave / 51 Condolence/
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