{"id":3822,"date":"2025-03-21T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:42:24","slug":"in-search-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/english-poetry\/in-search-of-home\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Squinting my eyes, I woke up to the morning sunshine,<br>Donned in the iron uniform beside the door,<br>Mama hurriedly screamed, \u201cDon't miss the bus, you have to reach school on time!\u201d<br>Pink Bougainville, red gulmohars, Indian elms,<br>Walking amidst the flower laden path, all trees dazzling like gems.<br><br>Mithu! Rithu! - two white cranes pecking their food on the cow's back,<br>Here's me chasing that tiny squirrel with my heavy backpack.<br>\u201cSrinu!, that ground is quite spacious \u201c,<br>Oh how we went cycling, it was indeed adventurous.<br><br>I have to leave, tears filled my hazel eyes,<br>But it doesn't mean that I want to cut off these deep rooted ties.<br>Packed suitcases lined up, among the clouds I flew,<br>When would I come back? I never knew.<br><br>I grew taller, childhood memories became fainter.<br>Somewhere deep within, my desire to find \u2018home\u2019 was even stronger.<br>Nine years later when I travel back to find that warmth and peace,<br>All I witness is humungous buildings, cement and grease.<br>Where's Srinu? Where's Rithu and Mithu?<br>Metro rails, iron nails,<br>Where's my home? Where are those lost tales?<\/strong><br><br>By Ambika Banerjee<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squinting my eyes, I woke up to the morning sunshine,Donned in the iron uniform beside the door,Mama hurriedly screamed, \u201cDon&#8217;t miss the bus, you have to reach school on time!\u201dPink Bougainville, red gulmohars, Indian elms,Walking amidst the flower laden path, all trees dazzling like gems.Mithu! Rithu! &#8211; two white cranes pecking their food on the &#8230; <a title=\"In Search of Home\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/english-poetry\/in-search-of-home\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In Search of Home\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowo8q9DA:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,388],"tags":[16,21,496,139,94,497,468],"ppma_author":[290],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-poetry","category-life","tag-changing-india","tag-english-poetry","tag-home","tag-life","tag-life-poetry","tag-search","tag-world-poetry-day","author-ambikab"],"authors":[{"term_id":290,"user_id":8,"is_guest":0,"slug":"ambikab","display_name":"Ambika Banerjee","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ambika-2.jpeg","url2x":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ambika-2.jpeg"},"author_category":"","first_name":"Ambika","last_name":"Banerjee","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3824,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions\/3824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}