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The Untold story of a Sitar 1 of 3
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Few days back
I got hold of a strange gift 
Of an old and slightly broken antique Sitar
It must be older than 
Seven to eight decades
Or maybe it came to see the first light 
On Earth  
Around a century ago. 01
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My heart was throbbing and almost jumping
To think and imagine
That I posses something 
Of unprecedented beauty and melody
With an untold story 
Still breathing 
In its heart. 02
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Thinking that I may get success 
In adding again
A replacement of those 
Strings and knobs
Which may bring back 
All its missing tunes and music
Which the Sitar has lost 
With the passing 
Of many decades of time
When the Sitar got forlorn and neglected
And gradually 
It lost some of its most essential 
And dear body parts. 03
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One day I was watching it minutely
To appreciate 
The beauty of this antique Sitar 
When I suddenly found
A name ‘Tan’ written
On one of its broken keys
And unknowingly 
I began to anticipate
That with the perhaps 
With the passing of time  
The Sitar would have shifted
From the soft hands 
Of its first owner 
Whose name was perhaps ‘Tan’. 04
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And surprisingly  
This name ‘Tan’ was still 
Faintly visible 
Written on one of the broken knob 
Of that antique Sitar
Which I happened to posses now. 05
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I imagined and presumed 
That perhaps
It’s unseen owner Tan
May had left that beauty mark 
By writing her unique lovely 
Name ‘Tan’
Which still appears to be 
Singing silently and shining dimly
After many ignored decades
The untold love story of Tan. 06
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That faintly written name 
Appeared to me
As the last impression and effort
Of a beautiful skilled 
Musician woman in love 
To immortalize her name & musical lore’s
By mildly engraving that name
On one of the knob 
Of this beautiful Sitar 
Which for me was 
No less precious 
Then the Grecian Urn
Which was spreading the same 
Beauty and stillness
With a difference 
That the Sitar was still capable 
To reproduce
The vibrations of all those sweet melodies
Which got lost on this unique 
Musical instrument of the last century
With the passing and change of time.  07

Ravindra
Kanpur India 13th April 2016
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