India, Dec. 26 -- The year is ending with a profound loss. Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla died on Tuesday at a hospital in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, aged 88. Among many readers who felt a personal sense of loss at his passing is a young poet in Delhi. Mukul lives in Mayur Vihar Phase 3. Over an exchange on WhatsApp, he talked of his attachment to the late writer, especially referring to his poem "Hatasha Se Ek Vyakti Baith Gaya Tha". He went on gushing respectfully about the departed poet: "The way Shuklji drops profundities in the plain sight of ordinary language. The way his sentences, familiar at first sight, move and bend into so many shapes of meaning. His empathy; he is never heavy-handed with his politics. Gentle, but always firm. So much t...