The Dusty Roads

By H.L. Agnihotri

In addition to providing a good stock of enjoyment and entertainment, the present book analyses and expresses what we see and feel around us, and brings before us a new world different from our own. It brings before us a pleasing and surprising revelation of some truth or beauty which generally goes unnoticed in life until some sensitive soul brings it to our attention making us feel it. It's here my honest effort to bring it before the readers in beautiful and coloured words expressing my observations and experiences of life with the hope that my learned and sagacious readers will view and evaluate it justly and impartially.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jul 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456784058

H.L. Agnihotri

A retired Associate Professor of India who, to his credit, touched new literary heights by getting published in India his four books of Hindi and English poetry, and prooved the words 'From cabin to the White house' true by rising from poverty to class-I gazetted officer.A self-made person born in India,who with his manly efforts obtained Master degrees in English, Political Science and Music, and became member both of Academic Council and Faculties of Languages at Punjabi University, Patiala in India.

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First published by AuthorHouse 06/06/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4567-8404-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4567-8405-8 (ebk)

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Contents

Cricket

All is One

A Cigarette

Relations Unrealized

An Auditorium

The Emblem

Things Cast-off

The Worldly Ways

Kurukshetra

A Thing Nameless

A Diamond

He and Me

Holy Flame

In and Out

A Visitor

The Rising Oceans

A Spongy Bag

A Forest

Three Mysterious Neighbors

Strands Sorrowful

The Train

Nowhere to Stop

Human Boundaries

A Split Personality

A Temple

The Lost Identity

The Sun-rise

A Conversation

Shooting a Dream

A Whimsical Toy

The Bridge-Making

A Compromise

Reflections in the Mirror

A Mis-adventure

A Burial Speech

An Argument

Two Stones

A Playful Sum

A Circular Motion

Boat in the Ocean

A Forsaken Lot

A Machine

Change Undefined

This to that Point

A Waiting Spectator

A Foreigner

A Disorder

Man with a Shadow

You and Me

Scales Unpoised

A Healing Touch

A Complex Mixture

With no Face

A Town Resplendent

This book is dedicated to

The sweet memory of

My beloved wife,

Late Smt. Brij Bala Sharma

Who shared with me

The joys and sorrows

Of my life.

I express my sense of gratitude to my brother, Dr. R.D.Sharma for his continuous guidance and advice, and am highly thankful to Rohit, Neerad and Sonal for lending me a helpful hand in the completion of this book.

H.L.Agnihotri

Preface

The object