MICROCOSM 1 When the starlight flowing into my eye like a golden drop Pierced the darknessof spacefor the first time,there wasn’t one single eye on the earth looking into the sky....The stars were old,the earth was a child. The stars are far from usbut so very far so very far. …Our world is small among the stars but so very smallso very small. … And Asiais one fifth of the world,And Indiais a country in Asia. Calcutta is a city in IndiaBenerjee is a man in Calcutta. And I am bringing you the news:In IndiaIn the city of Calcuttathey stopped on his wayA man who was walking and they chained him.And I don’t bother anymoreto lift my head toward the bright skies.If the stars are far, if the earth is smallI don’t care at allI don’t mind. … 1 This is a fragment from an epic on the life and death of an Indian revolutionary, Benerjee,published in 1934. I want you to know that I findmore astonishingmore powerfulmore mysterious and giganticTHIS MAN stopped on his way and chained.1934
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