Author: Tuhin Sanyal
Pages: 70
Year of Publication: 2004
Price: HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80
ISBN:
HB 81-8157-164-9 (8181571649)
FB 81-8157-165-7 (8181571657)

About the Author:
Tuhin Sanyal's love-affair with poetry dates back to his school days. Himself a student of English literature, he takes pleasure in reading W. B. Yeats, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and T. S. Eliot. Sheer passion led him to take up Yeats as a dissertation topic for his M. Phil course under the University of Calcutta. He has taught English at St. Xavier's School, Bokaro, for quite some time, worked as a freelancer for The Times of India, and is presently a post-graduate English teacher appointed by the West Bengal School Service Commission.

Teaser

White

There are more shades in white than you can imagine;
Long shades, short shades, tart shades,
Shades oblong and curt shades.
Yet all combine so simply to make it white.
They all merge, vault, mix and clap
And present to you a screen
Thereon you find yourself
Joining hands
For prayer or love,
Or rubbing off yesterday's filth due to sheer hygiene.
You can be there on the screen surely,
But not as a shade...
You are a speck rather, or a blob,
Waiting to be 'seen,'
Not as a part but standing out
Of that over populous white.

Contents:
White / 9
Dust / 10
A Short-Short-Story / 11
...beyond territorial waters / 12
A Late-September Observation on Sparrows / 13
A Glowing Fish / 14
Drowned Roads / 15
The Artist / 16
Of Craters / 17
Anti-Matter or a Shady Nursery Rhyme / 18
Araby Revisited / 19
Water / 20
The Seasonal Nurse / 21
Two Stray Packets / 23
Ashramas Revisited / 24
A Warm Image of an Ink-begotten Tune / 25
Smuggled Emotions / 27
The Orgy / 28
Were I Born in Bethlehem / 29
The Lost Photo-copies / 30
Soiled / 31
Acting 'Life' / 32
Ther'-w'z-a Junk-house / 33
Laboratory / 34
A Plain Love-Poem / 35
Subtle Horseplay and a Solar Portrait / 37
All That's Spent / 38
Hawk Resting / 39
Like Dry Wood / 40
A Rhyme on Hunger / 41
Do Not Throw Much Light / 42
A Song in Pete's Manner! / 43
The Voice of Drought / 44
In a Sleazy Dream / 45
Like the Refugee Cliffs / 46
What You Cannot Be / 48
One Day the Newspapers Woke up with Conjunctivitis / 49
The Varsity Story / 50
A Cold Poem / 51
Constable's Snow / 53
Defending Donne / 54
Of Contra-posed Images / 55
My Grave-yard Experience and My Grave-yard Experience II / 55
For Those Who Feel Bugged by My Presence at Gatherings / 56
About Us / 57
Mr. President / 58
Judas Files Reopened / 60
Our Lettered Leave-talking / 63
Tiresias / 66
Cross-border Twins / 68
Blue / 69