Aavantika love old delhi, this evening i watch people mingling in dusk kites that hold the last sky at ransom the muzzeins cry from jama masjid evoking vengeance belief smells and nighteyes from the ramparts of red fort chasing again the swirl of your hair the tilt of your breasts within my stronghold of passions. (c) Amitabh Mitra 2002

Amitabh Mitra Amitabh Mitra is an Orthopaedic Surgeon / Aviation Medicine Expert working in a major hospital in East London in South Africa. His poetry has a strong indian influence, primarily from the historical towns of Delhi and Gwalior. His first book of poems was published in India in 1980 under the title of Ritual Silences.