Just Like That | To speak of despondency, and hope, through poetry

Gulzar Saheb has this remarkably short poem on the shades of love: Yaad hai ik din, meri mez pe baithe baithe, cigarette ki dibiya par tumne, chhote se ik paudhe ka, ek sketch banaya tha; aake dekho, us paudhe par phool aaya hai (Remember, one day, while sitting at my table, you sketched on a cigarette box a tiny plant; come and see, that plant has bloomed). (Raju Shinde/ht photo)