“Never to have lived is best. And the second best/is to grow old with the morning into/afternoon, and then to evening, when sundry shadows and gestures marry/like the vanished divisions of a shut fan.”

St Cyril Road Sequence
St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005)

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contemporary Indian-English novelist 1962

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