Four verses. Jack and Jill from your nursery days. And an introspection. Vikram Seth dices and chops all of those with more than a sliver of humour and his tongue perhaps somewhere firmly in cheek and serves up Dubious.

Episode 9 takes a closer look at Dubious and tries to dissect what flavour those ingredients lend to the poem (and why).

Shownotes: http://bit.ly/3ZKSGLN

Background Score: Nebular Focus: Dan Henig | Retro: Wayne Jones | Industrial Music Box: Kevin MacLeod

Industrial Music Box by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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