Workshop # 4
Musings of the Mind

Do these passers by know why I'm sitting here?
Do they know what I'm feeling?
Do they know what my troubles are?
And all that I'm concealing?

Do they know I have no where to go
Mother earth is my bedding?
That there is no roof for me in this whole wide world
The vast sky is my ceiling?

Do they know I've been hungry for days?
& My health has been ailing?
As they sit in their cozy homes
Do they know the weather our here is chilling?

Do they know as they turn away?
That I too need a shoulder for leaning?
If they were to take my place for a day
Tell me, would they be willing?

And yet I feel proud of my dignity
Sitting in my old rickshaw that's almost failing
Coz' as I face endless disappointments and silent pains
I'm neither begging nor am I complaining! 

Oh please tell me, do you know? 

– Bijal Dwivedi
November 27, 2000 

Workshop # 4
Poetry
A Mute Audience – Pavalamani Pragasam
Beast of Burden – Subhajit Ghosh
Dignity – Hillol Ray
Don't Laugh on Other's Life – Vivek Saxena
Elected Silence! Talk to Me! – Seema Banerjee
Low on Green – Cynthia Proctor
Musings of the Mind – Bijal Dwivedi
Passing Life in Stride – Ahmed Tanhaa
Poor Man – Gummadi Venkata Reddy
Simple Dreams – Joseph Allen Hardy
Thanksgiving – B.K. Swaminathan
The Diary of a Relic – Smitha V
The Moment of Silence – Seema Banerjee
The Obsolete – Meenakshi Jha
The Runner – Hecletia
The Stare – Nicholas LaMattina
The Wait – MaryAnn Harrison
These Eyes – Helena Fernz
Your Eyes – Pili Pubul      
Articles/Stories 
A Simple Wish by Anton Piskac  
Bondage by Vasudevan Raghavan  
Contented Life by Pavalamani Pragasam
Dear Writer by Ramendra Kumar   
Empty Nest by Subhajit Ghosh
Karishma Kapoor in Benegal's Rainiya by Chitra Parayath
Musings on a Rare Friday Evening by Radhika Ramaswamy 
Point and Click by Maalok   
Rains by Tyr Anon    
Rains of Realization by Bijal Dwivedi   
So Babuji by Ashish Nangia
The Cycle of Life by Dr. CS Shah
The Last Photograph by Subrata Mukherjee 

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