The pictures in
the video are both from Katha books for children. The picture on the left by
Oscar Bluemner is from Why always? And
the picture on the right is by S.H. Raza from the book, “Raza by Raza”.
The
poem has been a favourite of mine from the very first time I read it – late in
life. Suvro da had sent an essay of his, “Why we read and write poetry?” back
in the Fall of 2002, and there were a few key lines from this poem, and so I had
looked the lines up on the net back then, and the poem has stayed with me since then.
