Avid followers of this blog will recall the beautiful poetry reading session at the first Choksey reunion. Sudhin and Anjali had brought us this book of Gujarati poems written by Dr Chaaya Shah. And they were absolutely beautiful.
I promised myself that one day I would translate them into English -I can read Gujarati, but I tend to confuse the "k" and the "f" and a few other key consonants. I suppose I could overcome it if I read enough.
So the general plan was, that I would go visit my Anila masi, who is a teacher by profession and work on the translation with her. Nearly 3 years, 3 homes and 3 cities after the Alibag trip, I finally sat down with Anila masi at the Phoenix Mills mall on the first floor of the Costa coffee shop - did you know that the waiters in the coffee shop are deaf and dumb ? But I digress.
I've put in the poems as stand alone posts right after this.
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