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Toru Dutt

Our Casuarina Tree

Memory, grief, and the one tree that holds a whole childhood intact.

Toru DuttToru Dutt4 min readPoetry

. Like a huge Python, winding round and round The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars Up to its very summit near the stars, A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound No other…

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Toru Dutt
Toru Dutt

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Poet and translator in English and French, dead at 21. The first great voice of Indian English poetry — the original prodigy.

This is Toru Dutt's first published story.

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