Then comes a time when stratagems of hope
Just do not succeed;
When life inscribes a twisted book
Impossible to read.
Those die who should not,
Those who should do not;
Wisdom takes a backward look,
And disowns lessons that it taught.
We then pace from room to room,
But find no resting place;
And blind despair overwhelms
Great words of sense and grace.
Badri Raina is a well-known commentator on politics, culture and society. His columns on the Znet have a global following. Raina taught English literature at the University of Delhi for over four decades and is the author of the much acclaimed Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth. He has several collections of poems and translations. His writings have appeared in nearly all major English dailies and journals in India.
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