# A Forlorn Community Street

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**Author:** Pijush Dhar
 **Pages:** 60 **Year of Publication:** 2009 **Price:** 
HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-915-7 (9788181579157) FB 978-81-8157-
916-4 (9788181579164)

_**About the Author**_
 Pijush Dhar was born in 1941 in Siliguri, West Bengal. In
1964, his job at the Accountant General’s office brought him to Shillong. In 1973
he started his own poetry magazine, _Pahariya_ (Of Hills), which has, over a period
of twenty five years, remained his most enduring token of contribution to poetry
in Shillong and the Northeast. He was the first to organize a Northeast Poetry Festival
in 1986, in Shillong. Dhar has published seven collections of poetry in Bengali,
all of them serving to demonstrate his deep admiration for Shillong.

_**Teaser**_

_A Forlorn Community Street_

When in pieces of an eye-ball
 an atomic rain of fire leaves its frugal sightseeing
and flies yawning about in the sky, a forlorn community street desperately clings
on to nothingness.

Some people match time, the right position of constellations,
 when the rocks and
the soil have left behind their deep oneness of swimming together to blindly sleep
with a round of rain, its five elements the forcible antics of their mind.

Translated by Nabanita Kanungo

_**Contents**_
 46 poems