MAIN DHOONDH RAHA HOON
Girija Asthana
MAIN DHOONDH RAHA HOON by By Arthur Bernard , 2016, 40 pp., 100.00
November 2016, volume 40, No 11

This collection of poems, translated from Japanese, touches your heart. The author was born and brought up and educated in the United States of America. All his life he was told that dropping of the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima was necessary and there was nothing wrong in it. He was used to words like Atomic Bomb and nuclear weapons. After finishing his studies in the US he went to Japan and studied the Japanese language. He visited the Peace Museum at Hiroshima. He met people there and talked to them. He learnt that the Japanese people gave the name PIKADON to Atom bomb. Arthur was influenced a lot by his visits to the Peace Museum.

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