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A letter by Amrita Pritam


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"In “A Letter,” the word for the police's stamp sounds like the word for an attack or ambush, and so elegantly we have the police raiding the revolutionaries even as they mark their documents. Pritam seems determined in the last stanza to go off the rails of the conceit, with the book suddenly capable of smell."

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Poetry DailyBy Yashvi Agrawal