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And here am I, Avis, with free days
while Scintli sits in meetings,
drawing up schedules, listing names
for the next big conference.
o
Delhi, like Kampala, like Rome,
is built on sevens. Seven cities,
and maybe more, they say of Delhi.
On a blue door in the old city
a string of lemons and chillies hang.
A charm to repel evil.
o
28 May
At Jagori I am watching a TV screen.
For two months I was catatonic,
I didn’t have the voice you hear today …
Women writers gave me voice.
It’s Andrea Dworkin in a time warp
from the 1970s speaking in black and white
to this young Indian researcher, spending
her holidays cataloguing the collection.