Old Delhi

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Here’s a poem that contrasts a bygone era to the contemporary world; it’s social commentary at its best.

In abandoning
this once renowned city
of perfumed and bottled love
of woven, silken pleasures
Where emperors secretly danced
the dance of nautch girls
And nautch girls
played at being king
and
where the only beggars
were pining lovers



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