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Homily

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She knows it’s neither strange nor hard
To raise children on graveyards.

All you need
Is a terrible deed –
Then you bury the dead,
And forget.

© 2010, Tabish Khair
From: Man of Glass
Publisher: Harper Collins, New Delhi

Tabish Khair

Tabish Khair

Tabish Khair (born 1966) is a poet, novelist and essayist. His significant poetry collections include Where Parallel Lines Meet (2000) and Man of Glass (2010). Born and educated in the state of Bihar, he worked in Gaya and New Delhi as a reporter with The Times of India, and later moved to Copenhagen where he worked on a PhD on “Babu Fictions: Alienation in the Indian English Novel”. He has rec...

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Homily

She knows it’s neither strange nor hard
To raise children on graveyards.

All you need
Is a terrible deed –
Then you bury the dead,
And forget.

From: Man of Glass

Homily

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