Tag Archives: Middle Readers–Hindi

Prabhat’s newest collection of poems–Totiya Teetar–is very different from all his previous poetry collections. This is a unique collection of very small poems, each poem of only four lines. The first poem itself, titled ‘Panchhi’, gives us a peek into the detailed and wide nature of Prabhat’s observational lens.

Often, when children pose questions that adults don’t have answers to, they avoid the questions by saying things like, ‘God only will have the answer to this’, and when asked, ‘Who is God? Who should we go to, to ask this?’, children are often pointed to an idol or an image of God. Then, the…