TEN POEMS AND A LETTER FROM AMERICA FOR MR SINHA
Publisher: Cultural and Educational Productions, Canada and U.S.A.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Montreal, Province Quebec
Language: eng
Format: Hardbound
Number of pages: 94
Copyright date: As an Unpublished Work, Canada, 1971
Subjects: Literature; Poetry
Genres: Letters
First sentence: From: THE STORY OF MR SINHA (page 13). I fancy my world has never been quite  the same since early one morning in March 1968 when a young man, let us preserve his identity in the pseudonym of Sinha, stormed into my room on the ground floor of the Grand Hotel, Calcutta. There was an urgency in the thundering on the door and almost before I could accept the evidence of my senses the bolt restraining the feable partition gave way and a small man, manifestly Bengali, hurtled into the chamber. The battering frap and the vivid parting of of the doors is as clear now in memory as it was at that moment of his bold incursion. Sans ado, casting me in the role of an elder brother, prodding a column of ANANDA BAZAR PATRIKA of the day relating my presence in Calcutta and a reading of verse for ALL INDIA RADIO, he insisted that I was responsible for him and must forthwith arrange his departure from India to the United States.
Description: The writer receives sixteen letters from a young man in India who demands that he be brought to the United States and that he would serve as the writer's servant and steward. Endeavoring to stem the flood of letters and recognizing the impossibility of responding to this request, the writer sends a reply to Mr Sinha including observations on the difficulties that he would face in life outside India. He offers the young man as a gift TEN POEMS and a number of Children's Drawings - "The First Flight To Mairs"; Fatman Meets The Muskrat; Il y a un Joli Sapin dans le Cour; Mistigris se fache contre le Chien; C'est Mignon, le petit Mouton Blanc - using the drawings as a counterpoint - North America seen through the eyes of a child. How would Mr Sinha adapt ? Could he cope even with the child's world? There is a photograph of the author, facing page 90, by Saby Fernandes of the Indian Express Newspaper.
Notes: Notes on some of the Poems (page 84-85) are of interest in terms of his letter to Mr Sinha. He describes Golden Gate Bridge, Sausilito, the California Redwoods. The verse GRAND CANYON VIEWS gives a poetic and emotional description of the Colorado River and the Canyon; He describes White Mountain in New Hampshire on the Night of Hallow E'en and seeing the first snow of the season.He concludes the book with an account of INDIA: March 1971 when the Fifth Lok Sabha (Parliament) was convened and a new Government of India under an old leader - Mrs Indira Ghandi - took office. Recognizing all the Mr Sinhas - he notes that the rate of change of conditions in India is critical but it is necessary for outsiders to understand that a measure of generosity and patience must be given in recognizing the immensity of the issues that any government in India must face.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: India Revisited May 1970; title: A Background  To The Letters Of Mr Sinha; title: THE STORY OF MR SINHA; title: THE LETTERS OF MR SINHA ( Sixteen in all); title: A LETTER TO MR SINHA; title: WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE LOVELY THINK ON THESE THINGS; title: TEN POEMS FOR MR SINHA; title: NOTES ON SOME OF THE POEMS; title: ON TRIMMING SUTURES OR AT THE END; title: THE BOOK AND THE AUTHOR; title: INDIA: MARCH 1971. A POST-WORD