Author: Pervin Chhapkhanawala
Pages: 48
Year of Publication: 2009
Price: HB Rs 120, FB Rs 100
ISBN:
HB 978-81-8157-843-3 (9788181578433)
FB 978-81-8157-844-0 (9788181578440)

About the Author:
Pervin Chhapkhanawala is a writer, editor and poet. Born in Mumbai in 1984, she studied in Queen Mary School, St. Xavier's College and then obtained her M.A. in English Literature from S.N.D.T. University in 2007. She works as an English language consultant at a publishing house that brings out academic books. She also writes for India Today's Prevention and Pink, Bride and Style, trendelicious.com and a few other publications. Outside of writing, she holds a black belt in karate. At present, she stays with her husband in Pune.

Teaser:

Unloving You

It's hardest but most essential
Reversing all the distance
Distancing all the closeness
Eyes indulge a last rinse
Skin cells undo the caress.

That, or risk

The love turning grotesque
Bathed in jealousy
Steeped in comparison
Lose all sensitivity
Shrink the grandeur within.

Either one has to die
The love or the potential.
Correction,
The love would have died anyway.
I save what can be saved.

Contents:
I danced / 9
A visit from void / 10
A repeat visit from void / 11
Cheating / 12
Hole in my heart / 13
Winner / 14
The enemy / 15
Candle and love / 16
Snow White wakes up / 17
The 1:15 silence / 18
Unloving you / 19
Twenty six letters / 20
Time, my lover / 21
The river / 22
The pact / 23
The Lost Woman / 24
The bear hunt / 25
Spinning / 27
Now the tears don't fall / 28
A poet / 29
No, I don't think of you / 30
No, don't say it / 31
Mummy / 32
Neighbours / 33
Holding back / 34
Heart on rent / 35
Don't expect / 36
Capital punishment / 37
An unequal battle / 38
Absent presence / 39
I wait for myself / 40
Wonderland ceased to be / 41
A marathon love / 42
Dragons / 43
A tinge of turmeric / 44