"Mrs Lalitha Thomas, a BCL member, dropped by yesterday and gave me a poem that she had written on the closure of the BCL. The poem's heartfelt emotion is so evident. We could share it with others. I cannot but help compare this with the very well drafted and polite reply by the British High Commission to the Indian Express (published in the IE on 18 Dec, 07), which in the end, leaves us no wiser about the new organisation which is to replace the BCL and presumably, extend our horizons further. The poem , on the other hand is very clear."
- Regards, Sushil Pillai
PLEASE -PLEASE
Please dont take the Library from us,
Please don't think we are making a fuss.
I want you to know you are breaking our hearts,
We are crying, we are sighing, in fits and starts,
We loved its lovely atmosphere
Now our city is all out of gear !
The Books, oh the Books, the classics ;our mind,
(The Winter Wind is not so unkind!)
Please dont make our Library
A thing of the past, a memory !
This poem was wrenched straight from my heart,
If the Library goes, I'll be torn apart
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