Acknowledgement

I am grateful to Neeraj for the sketch that has caught the spirit of the poem ‘Plaint to Kheerbhawani’ and to Anil Nakhasi for his two pencil drawings included in this book. They are from the new generation of promising Pandit artists in exile.

My blessings and love to my daughter Renuka, my younger brother Surrinder and his daughter Tara for typesetting the poems in their personal computers.