Geishas

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Urchins

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Distressed

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Howrah Bridge..

...christened anew Rabindra Setu is a cantilever and suspension bridge spanning a distributary of Ganges, Hooghly. It connects town and Railway station of Howrah with Calcutta, now renamed Kolkata. Construction of the bridge began in 1936 and completed in 1942 under the British rule of India, Raj. It was built without nuts and bolts but with rivets only. It is a pride and joy for me, an ex-Calcutta-ite... I still know the city as Calcutta, once my home, and perhaps always will know it as such.

                                                                                                                                    charu

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Panihari--Water Girl

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पनिहारी 

चलि राधा किशन अभिसारे
निकली पनिया भरन बहाने।
जरा संभलके चलिओ राधे,
काहनो कंही कंकरी ना मारे।

                                          --चारू गांधी 


Water Girl

To a rendezvous with Krishna,
 she left, as if to fetch water.
Tread carefully Radha,
Krishna may sling a pebble!

                        Poem and Translation
                     by
                        --charu gandhi