First stanza:

Second stanza: 

The author of the poem is, Dilip Chitre, he: 

The main idea of the first stanza is to describe how his father returned home in a train after a long, hard day of working. It seems like he is very tired and frustrated. He is dirty and tired, his clothes are stained with mud. We get to know that the train is very silent and no one talks. It is also night. I think that the author tries to emphasis on how blue and tired he feels. He is like boring of always the same so he doesnt pay attention on the way home or the people because he knew it to much. He is old, he isnt ingnorant because he is carrying books so we get the impression that Dilip's father is a teacher or maybe a librarian.

The main idea of the second stanza is to describe what does the father does when he returns home. He is alone drinking a tea and an old bread. He thinks of his family and feels upset. In my opinion the father alienate his family, they had a distance relationship, he almost have no connection. However he doesnt do anything to improve it. "Listening to the static in the radio, dreaming of his ancestors and grandchildren, thinking of nomads entering a subcontinet through a narrow pass..." it seems two things. From one hand "dreaming of his ancestors and grandchildren.." looks like he wants to escape reality. From the other hand "thinking of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass" it seems like the father imagine how was his life before colonization, kind of past. "He goes into the toilette to contemplate mans estrangment from a man made world" with this sentece we could get to know that he was watching his face at the mirror and he feels strange and different from the others. This feeling he also had it in the train and even with his own family.

The poem has a serious tone because the poet is describing the type of life that his father had, he speaks about how his father alienated himself from other people from his own family,where even his own children didnt share anything with them. The other tone is melancholic because we can understand the pain and the misery of the poets father when he travels in the train and when he is at home. In the poem there is a "twilight atmosphere" because of the colours that appear like "evening train", "yellow lights and "grey platform".  

In my opinion alienation refers to the distance relationship the father had with his own family, almost not connection and they didn't share anything. However he didnt make anything to to improve it. This sentence: " His sullen children have often refused to share jokes and secrets with him..." would refer to this distance relationship. I think that the father also alienate from the commuters in the train, like they didn't pay attention to him. "Like a word drop from a long sentence". 

"I can see him getting of the train like a word dropped from a long sentence" means that many commuters were getting off the rain, however anyone notice that the father was also getting off. In other words it means that "long sentece" refers to all the commuter and "word dropped" the father. This quote is also a metaphor an a similie as it have LIKE.