Contents: Note. 1. Witness. 2. Metamorphosis. 3. Verdict. 4. Spring comes in Calenders.

"Kamal Kumar's poems take the reader's mind to today's realities of life and living. In the general aura of darkness that prevails in the midst of socio-political games, corruption and a perverted sense of justice, these poems present the way in which the common man is made a pawn in the prevailing criminality.

In the poems titled 'Witness', the author focuses on the place of woman in society -- the position she is relegated to and the role she is expected to play; and often, too often, her pain, feelings, identity crisis and the unconventional meaning that emerges from her experience of it all.

The Poems in the section called 'The Spring Comes in Calenders', particularly Bayan (Dying statement), emphasise the painful contradictions, corruption gaps and cracks that make the common man's living torturous, uncertain, meaningless. He has practically nowhere to go, nowhere to rest. In her poems in 'Metamorphosis', Kamal points to the possibility of self-realisation from the individual's absorption with nature, and nature's many ramifications.

Her poems attempt to light up the dark corners as life winds its way through the corridors of time, groping towards enlightenment which it hopes perpetually to find." (jacket)