A Matryoshka Doll
“There is a doll inside a doll, another doll inside that doll,
Yet another doll inside that doll, and then another within that;
And one day I asked the smallest doll-
‘Little doll, are you aware of how many dolls you are inside?’
Hearing this much, it said to me-
‘There is a world inside this world, inside that world is another one,
Yet another world inside the latter, then another one within that;
And can you gauge the number of worlds you reside in, o human?’”
-'Gudiya' by Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Presenting Gokul Nair's anthology, A Matryoshka Doll.
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