IMPORTANT WORKS:

• Two collections of poems, two novelettes and a collection of short stories
• Several translations including works of Octavio Paz, Rabindranath Tagore and Girish Karnad

I was a door
The harder they beat me
The wider I opened
They walked in and saw
A great cosmic whirling
When the grinding stops , the spinning begins
When the spinning stops, the sewing begins
Something or other , all day, non-stop.

And in the end my broom sweeps it all up
Sweeps up the stars in the sky
Mountains, trees , stones
All the shards and splinters of creation
Collects them in a basket
Stores them somewhere
deep inside
In some corner of the mind.

- translated from Hindi by Ritu Menon