Dr. V.V.B.Rama Rao, (b.1938), a retired ELT professional, is a creative writer / translator and has to his credit thirty-five published books and critical essays / reviews by the hundred. Now he lives in Delhi Add: C-7 New Township, BTPS, Badarpur, New Delhi- 110 044
Email: vvbramarao@yahoo.com


A Bit of Kargil

It’s a chill misty early Delhi morning
The walkers keep abed
A cur wanders, perhaps to keep warm.
The colony lies huddled
Under thick quilts, rugs and assorted pullovers
The wide empty gates sound alarms for me:
Open, they are dreadful
Closed – more frightful
No knowing what may happen inside.
The lone man on watch cuddles a cur
Loneliness is hell:
Kargil could be in the mind too!