Of Burdens Without Weight
In Vinod Kumar Shukla's stories, you find an escape in reality rather than from it.
One of the stories in Blue is Like Blue describes a group of poets who gather regularly to read their work. These meetings are presided over by a critic who, lest it be said that "poets are cut off from reality", insists that each poet physically bring the symbols used in their poems. This is more troublesome for some poets than for others. One 'labourer-poet' hasn't been able
