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Vajpayee, the poet to the fore again

Nainital March 30. The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, who is on a three-day private visit to the tourist resort of Kumoan, rendered his latest poem on persistent demand from mediapersons.

After his famous poems, ``Haar nahi manoonga' (I will not accept defeat) and ``Geet naya gata hoon' (I sing a new song), it is ``Geet nahi gata hoon'' (I do not sing a song) this time.

``Geet nahi gata hoon (I do not sing a song),

Benaqab chhehre hain (faces have been unmasked),

Daag bade gahre hain (scars are deep), Toottha tilism aaj, saach se bhaya khata hoon (with the beaking up of mystery today, I am afraid of even truth).

Geet nahi gata hoon (I do not sing a song).

Lagi kuch aise naszar, bikhra shishe ka shahar, (evil eye has fallen, the town of glass lay broken),

Apno ke mele main, meet nahi pata hoon (amongst the fair of our own, I do not find my beloved),

Peeth main choori sa chhand, rahu gaya rekha phannd, (the stabbed knife in the back looks like a moon, the inauspicious planet of Rahu has crossed its limits),

Mukti ke shaano main, bandh jata hoon (in the moments of salvation, I find myself shackled),

Geet nahi gata hoon (I do not sing a song).''

Asked about any new composition in Nainital, he quipped, ``Akaash main badal ghumad rahe hain, shayaad barsaat ho jaye'' (There are clouds, it may rain). — PTI

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