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Masks

14 October 2005, 18:00 PM

LITERATURE

Rumana Siddique

I hate masks
I think the human face divine
Then why I ask
Is there a mask over mine?

Rumana Siddique teaches English at Dhaka University.

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Masks

Rumana Siddique teaches English at Dhaka University.

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