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Notes:Epigraphs:
I don't want to get into films. I want to go to school. -- Meena Kumari, aged six years (1938)
I saw your feet, they are very beautiful; don't put them on the ground, they will be soiled. -- Raaj Kumar's paean to Meena Kumari's feet in the movie Pakeezah (1972, the year of her death).-
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Love and Wigs : Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond
Yarraville
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Transit Lounge
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2003
Z1064896
2003
selected work
poetry
Yarraville
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Transit Lounge
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2003
pg.
87-88
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Subjects:
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Mumbai,
cIndia,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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