<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451649" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nostalgia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I moved to Delhi in Nineteen Seventy Four<br>and lived on a ‘barsati ’ floor.<br>It was safe then to sleep on a summer’s night<br>on the terrace under the stars and moonlight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, not anymore! <br>You have to lock every door, <br>to keep out the danger that looms<br>outside your air cooled rooms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Isn’t it a pity<br>what life has come to in a city? <br>No longer can you enjoy<br>sleeping on a ‘charpoy in the courtyard, balcony or terrace, <br>because of the rising terrorist menace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I miss those evenings when after sunset, <br>we would sprinkle water on the brick floor till it was wet, <br>getting relief from heat<br>walking on it bare feet.<br>and climbing on the bed made of cool white sheets.<br>Quietly watching the stars and the moon, <br>and drift into a tranquil sleep soon, <br>to be woken up by the twitter of the birds in the morn<br>feeling fresh, renewed, reborn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, this claustrophobic life is what it has come to be, <br>in the concrete jungles that are our urban cities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mamta+Agarwal">Mamta Agarwal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451649" data-title="Nostalgia de Mamta Agarwal" data-description="I moved to Delhi in Nineteen Seventy Four and lived on a ‘barsati ’ floor. It was safe then to sleep on a summer’s night on the terrace under the stars and moonlight. Alas, not anymore! You have to lock every door, to keep out the danger ..."></div> </div> </div>

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