{"id":10137,"date":"2016-02-26T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10137"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","slug":"angelee-deodhar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/angelee-deodhar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelee Deodhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Segue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our fast train stops just outside the station. On the abandoned weed littered railway track, smoke strands from a sadhu\u2019s\u00a0chulha\u00a0drift past a sinking sun. A chorus of mynahs joins the cacophony of crows. The cantonment junction where my dad, a doctor in the Army was posted five decades ago is just half a kilometer away.<\/p>\n<p>Now as the train moves forward to stop at Ambala, on the station I see stacked olive green holdalls, black trunks and crates with army numbers and names painted in white and soldiers in battle camouflage drinking tea. The A.H. Wheeler\u2019s bookshop, a bookstore chain founded in 1887, operating from railway stations is still\u00a0 there. I remember buying Somerset Maugham\u2019s\u00a0The Magician.<\/p>\n<p>As we begin to move from the opposite train a child calls \u2018bye bye train\u2019 and I wave and call back\u2019\u00a0bye bye child\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>worry stones \u2013<br \/>\nblue marbles tinkle<br \/>\nin my pocket<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angelee\u00a0Deodhar<\/strong>, an eye surgeon by profession is a haiku poet, translator, and artist. She lives and works in Chandigarh, India.\u00a0 Her haiku\/haibun\/haiga have been published internationally in various books and journals,\u00a0 and her work can be viewed on many websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Segue Our fast train stops just outside the station. On the abandoned weed littered railway track, smoke strands from a sadhu\u2019s\u00a0chulha\u00a0drift past a sinking sun. A chorus of mynahs joins the cacophony of crows. The cantonment junction where my dad, a doctor in the Army was posted five decades ago is just half a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24018,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions\/24018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}