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Another Woman Poem by Ms.Imtiaz Dharker prescribed for Class X by APSCERT & TGSCERT New syllabus. PPT prepared by M Padma Lalitha Sharada of GHS Malakpet under guidance of Smt. C B Nirmala Madam

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Another Woman - Ms.Imtiaz Dharker

Ms.Imtiaz Dharker

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For Class X English

APSCERT &

TGSCERT Sylabus

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By M PADMA LALITHA SHARADA GHS Malakpet Under guidance

of Smt. C B NIRMALA Rtd. Dy. E.O., Nampally Mandal, Hyderabad

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About The Author Ms.Imtiaz Dharker

Ms.Imtiaz Dharker was born in Lahore in Pakistan in 1954 and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland.

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She is ranked on par with some of the famous women poets of India such as, Kamala Das, Sujatha Bhatt and Tara Patel.

Sujatha Bhatt

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She is not only a poet but also a painter and an accomplished documentary film maker.

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Her collections of poetry include Purdah, Postcards from God, and I Speak for the Devil, The Terrorist at my Table and Leaving Fingerprints.

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ANOTHER WOMAN

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This morning she bought green 'methi' in the market, choosing the freshest bunch;

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picked up a white radish,

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imagined the crunch it would make between her teeth, the sweet sharp taste,

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then put it aside, thinking it an extravagance, counted her coins

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out carefully, tied them, a small bundle into her sari at the waist;

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came home, faced her mother-in-law's dark looks, took

the leaves and chopped them,

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her hands stained yellow from the juice;

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cut an onion, fine and cooked the whole thing in the pot

over the stove,

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shielding her face from the heat.

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The usual words came and beat their wings against her: the money spent,

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curses heaped upon her parents, who had sent her out

to darken other people's doors.

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She crouched, as usual, on the floor beside the stove,

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When the man came home she did not look into his face

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nor raise her head; but bent her back a little more.

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Nothing gave her the right to speak.

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She watched the flame hiss up and beat against the cheap old pot,

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a wing of brightness against its blackened cheek.

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This was the house she had been sent to,

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the man she had been bound to,

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the future she had been born into.

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So when the kerosene was thrown (just a moment of surprise,

A brilliant spark)

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It was the only choice that she had ever known.

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Another torch, blazing in the dark.

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Another woman.

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We shield our faces from the heat.

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THANK YOU Smt. Nirmala Madam

Sharada