# The Last Fall

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**Author:** Kailash Varma
 **Pages:** 99 **Year of Publication:** 2002 **Price:**
HB Rs 120, FB Rs 80 **ISBN:** HB 81-7595-978-9 (8175959789) FB 81-7595-979-7 (8175959797)

**_ About the Author:_**
 Kailash Varma, presently residing in New Delhi, did his
Master’s from the University of Delhi, and has been writing poetry as a hobby. His
poems have been published in journals and newspapers both in India and abroad. Varma
belonged to the Indian Foreign Service and has now retired.

**_ Teaser:_**

_I carry the foot-prints_

I carry the foot-prints
 of my life-long journey on my aging back where each foot-
print seems to tell a story most telling, unfolding what is larger than mundane 
life — the converging point of faith and prayers.

**_Contents:_**
 To Karan / 17 Like a true devotee / 18 To Prem / 19 Tender was 
the farewell / 20 I carry the foot-prints / 21 The sea wind roared nightmarishly/
22 When the shutters are down / 23 The grace and suppleness / 24 The agonizing doubts/
25 The sweet and sour soup / 26 Is life all about / 27 The heart keeps reminiscing/
28 I feel the silent pain / 29 To Bina Chopra / 30 Faces of wall hangings / 31 The
autumn twilight dropped / 32 When I contemplate / 33 Sorrow and sadness / 34 Too
many flashbacks / 35 To Prem / 36 I closed the book / 37 Something you said / 38
The River Siene / 39 The sweet-nothings of yesterdays / 40 The empty chest of drawers/
41 Tumultuous tidings of Time / 42 The gulmohar flowers / 43 The four empty dining
chairs / 44 The dull, muffled boredom / 45 Walking the ten-year old Apso / 46 Notwithstanding
our Karmas / 47 Looking out of the window / 48 If all is pre-ordained / 49 Contemplating
the flowers / 50 A dent in time / 51 Flowers died unmourned / 52 I have been serenading
God too long / 53 Between the two of us / 54 I am like that brooding pigeon / 55
Leaning against the railings / 56 People change / 57 What language fails / 58 We
were at the cross-roads / 59 Your amorous glances / 60 The rise and fall of the 
day / 61 The sentiments of letters / 62 How long can you pray / 63 To Karan / 64
Time and again the same faces / 65 How oft the shallow in man / 66 Time in time 
ticks away / 67 Sometimes it happens / 68 There are names that come / 69 Day in 
and day out / 70 Do you know / 71 Combing his gray hair / 72 Ajmer Sharif / 73 Fearing
the fear of sharing / 74 Hot tears on a cold pillow / 75 I am the lone face / 76
When you know / 77 Whenever I think of you / 78 To Prem / 79 So what if I die? /
80 Sound and silence / 81 Meeting you / 82 What ails the aching heart? / 83 When
things fall apart / 84 When man meets his end / 85 Your soulful eyes / 86 Quiet 
walls / 87 When I finish writing / 88 Was it yesterday / 89 When you smiled / 90
There was no time to ponder / 91 The ever compulsive urge / 92 Behold the morning
splendor / 93 To Prem / 94 Tomorrow is another day / 95 To remember you / 96 The
sad song died / 97 The heart often trespasses / 98 To Karan / 99 Excerpts from reviews/
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