3801 N. Fasatiempo Place Tucson, Arizona 85705 USA 4 November 1984 My dearest Daddy and Mummy, I hope you received the birthday and anniversary cards I sent you as well as a letter I had sent a little earlier. The news from India is most distressing, and Indira Gandhi's death filled me with anguish. It is a terrible break from the past, and, despite all her faults, she was great. And now the reprisals against the Sikhs are also agonizing. The country seems to have gone mad, and I hope Ra...
a letter "to Shahid" from the homeland that actually seems to be in his own handwriting. there is discussion of distance, grief, misfortune, and hardship in that "far-away place"
GHAZAL Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar -—Laurence Hope Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell tonight before you agonize him in farewell tonight? Pale hands that once loved me beside the Shalimarz Whom else from rapture's road will you expel tonight? Those "Fabrics of Cashmere--" "to make Me beautiful--" "Trinket"-—to gem-—"Me to adorn--How-—tell"-—tonight? I beg for haven: Prisons, let open your gates-— A refugee from pity seeks a c...
