Yes, the woods Frost described were actually lovely, dark and deep. But the woods we are forced to countenance these days in our country are far from lovely, leave alone dark and deep. We have so many woods tailing something or the other. For instance, wood tailing bolly, tolly, kolly and what not. I really cannot keep count of them. They all seem to be wagging tail of Holly. That is precisely why we have borrowed 'wood' from Hollywood to create our own bollywood, tollywood, kollywood and lo! Pakistanis have made their own lollywood. We are getting to hear bhojiwood from those making Bhojpuri films. For obvious reasons, I have not allowed them capital first letter, for I don't treat them as proper nouns. Hollywood already seems to be suffering from bankruptcy of ideas. Their films are bizarre, to say the least. Indian film industry whether located at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai or Hyderabad is doing quite a good job, and as we can see quite a few from other frontiers including from Hollywood are descending to India to find space in our film industry. So if anyone, it is those people who should ape us and not we. For God sake, get rid of these woods and return to the woods of Robert Frost. They are truly lovely, dark and deep.
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