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Compliments of the Season

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'Then will the trees shout for joy'

December 25, 2024

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Qissa

December 25, 2024

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Mardol

December 13, 2024

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Poetic Memoirs

December 13, 2024

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Twelfth Night

December 12, 2024

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'Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field?''

December 06, 2024

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Gangs of Godavari

December 03, 2024

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Gangs of Wasseypur

December 02, 2024

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Museum under my bed

December 02, 2024

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Brian Mendonca: We are based in Goa, India. I have self-published three volumes of poems: 'Last Bus to Vasco - Poems from Goa' (2006), 'A Peace of India - Poems in Transit' (2011) and 'Jasmine City - Poems from Delhi' (2023). Basking in the love of the readers and listeners of my poems.

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'An Evening in Paris'
'Indian' Sunday
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0696 Vasco Yesvantpur Garib Rath
0903 Special Rajdhani
1 Kings 11: 29-39
1 Sam. 17
1 Sam. 24
1 Sam. 26
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