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"...Though writing and poetry have always provided meaning in Mira's life, her awareness of her country's political corruption causes her to question the necessity of teaching English poetry in India. She feels she lacks the words to describe her society: "The liens sucked in chunks of the world, then collapsed in on themselves. Our streets were too crowded, there was too much poverty and misery. The British had subdued us for too long and now that they had left, the unrest in rock and root, in the souls of men and women, was too visible, too turbulent already to permit the kinds of writing I had once learned to value."..."
(H.S., p. 169)
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