Friday Poem

Environmental & Science Education, Poetry, Art & Environment, Society, Culture

Ed Hessler

At the Museum is by Agha Shahid Ali.

 

References

The Wiki entry on Harappa.

The Wiki entry on asafoetida.

For contemporary cooking comments on asafoetida, a discussion by Priya Krishna, Bon Appetit.

Comments on where Ali might have seen it, the sculpture and an image.

The Wiki entry on the National Museum, India.