manan dedhia

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Khayyam

The moving finger writes and having writ, moved on: not all thy piety not wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, not all thy tears wash out a word of it.

P.S.: Read “Remnants of Separation” by Aanchal Malhotra. Well worth your time.

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