“The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.”

—  Manmohan Acharya

Stanza-10, Verse 6
Song of the Bumblebee (2008)

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