Nowhere but there/ Ashok Vajpeyi ; translated from Hindi by Vijay Munshi

"Sahitya Akademi award-winning poetry collection in Hindi"

Wherever you say -- Even there -- Once -- We will be no more -- Why alone -- We -- Not leaving behind everything -- Unable to return -- After the end - I -- After the end - II -- Fading away -- At dusk alone -- How nice it would be -- The last ballad -- The gods will call us -- Next time -- Death -- Not those -- I will come again -- To this very dusty state -- Seeking refuge -- Repetition -- Home again -- Ancestral homes -- The path -- Just there -- A window -- Remnants -- Not alone -- How does one say? -- The excommunicated -- Survivors -- The hand - I -- The hand - II -- The hand - III -- As it were -- May be -- Oneness -- She -- In love or reverence -- How will she say? -- Pleasure changed its place -- Splendour -- Nothing happened -- Times -- The wonder of age -- Not the same -- The word will not be shelved -- The metaphor -- The remnant -- If the sun be with us -- Late at night -- If -- With arrogant time -- Gods return at dusk -- One day -- Gods -- Word, muse and the century -- Just this little hope? -- What time is it? -- Poem born of burden -- This is the time -- Not all through the window -- An old man unaware of this century -- That old muslim -- Thirst -- Light -- Door -- The bird -- No beginning, no end -- Ahead and behind -- Words on the wall -- Morning -- game -- The children -- Chamaktar -- Two men on a culvert -- Douwa baba -- Shubsrava -- The book -- The house -I -- The house -II -- The God -- The barbarians -- The victor -- The wind -- No -- The road -- The ballad of a response -- The frontier -- The return -- Acting -- Defeat and victory -- The absence -- The darkness -- The jungle -- The call -- All of a sudden -- Shubhachal -- The eternal forest