My first love And my first poems Blossomed under a banyan tree. My poems never died.... Sundar's biggest dream is about to come true. He has been accepted into a program of higher education in the far away city. But he is seventeen and in love for the first time, and this is rural India of the 1960's, where cultural edicts reign superior to dreams of the heart. To stay back and fight for love would be to sacrifice the wings that would raise his family from obscurity; to leave would be to rip apart the very fabric of his heart. Several decades later, Dr. Sundaralingam, now a media celebrity,...