Forty Four Poems
By Ajay Singh Yadav

About the Author

Ajay Singh Yadav was born in 1954. He left the Indian Administrative Services in 1998 to devote himself entirely to writing and other pursuits. He has written four other books to date. Why I am Not a Civil Servant is an autobiographical account of his years in the civil service, the man-eating wolves of ashta is  a true story of man-eating wolves which the author encountered in 1984, Darkness Before Dawn is a novel about religious fundamentalism, and Tibet the lost Treaty is a thriller set of Tibet.

Dedication : To the forests and mountains of India which I have always loved.

Index
• About the Author• A Hotel In Paharganj• A Modern Politician• The Colors of the Grass• After the second rain• The Christian Cemetery at Betul• Give me a lonely Road• Two Nandis• Black Beauty• A Memory• Silent Witness• Mademoiselle• Alfristoun• On the Way to the Garden• Listen to the Silence• The Forest in Summer• Palash• Kaliasote in Winter• The Abandoned House• Poetry is a Load of Crap• October Rain• Nocturne 2• The Lonesome Graveyard• Chikaldara• A Forest Shrine• Nocturnal Walk• Samardha• Samardha Revisited• Power• Evening In The Park• Moving On• Moonlight• August Afternoon• The Cemetery At Kashmiri Gate Delhi• The Poet’s Vocation• The Craft of Verse• Uttarkashi• Aurangzeb• The Successful Poet• In Memoriam• The Landscape of My Mind• Epitaph• A Civil Servant Remembers• A Hotel Room• A Good Man is Forever

Table of Contents

• About the Author• A Hotel In Paharganj• A Modern Politician• The Colors of the Grass• After the second rain• The Christian Cemetery at Betul• Give me a lonely Road• Two Nandis• Black Beauty• A Memory• Silent Witness• Mademoiselle• Alfristoun• On the Way to the Garden• Listen to the Silence• The Forest in Summer• Palash• Kaliasote in Winter• The Abandoned House• Poetry is a Load of Crap• October Rain• Nocturne 2• The Lonesome Graveyard• Chikaldara• A Forest Shrine• Nocturnal Walk• Samardha• Samardha Revisited• Power• Evening In The Park• Moving On• Moonlight• August Afternoon• The Cemetery At Kashmiri Gate Delhi• The Poet’s Vocation• The Craft of Verse• Uttarkashi• Aurangzeb• The Successful Poet• In Memoriam• The Landscape of My Mind• Epitaph• A Civil Servant Remembers• A Hotel Room• A Good Man is Forever