# Without Borders

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- Published: 2015-07-14T18:46:03+00:00
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**Author:** P. K. N. Panicker
 **Pages:** 120 **Year of Publication:** 2013 **Price:**
Rs 250 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-066-6 (9789350450666)

_**About the Author**_
 P. K. N. Panicker is a chemical engineer and is President
of Chemical Industries Association. In the past, he was the President of the Indian
Institute of Chemical Engineers. His technical articles have been published in journals,
including the _Encyclopedia of Chemical Process and Design_. He is a bilingual poet
and has three volumes of poetry in English to his credit – _Random Reflections_ (
Minerva Press), _Insight_ and _Ultimate Triumph_ (both by Window Publishers). He
has published one collection in Malayalam, _Swapnangal_ (Olive Publications). His
other titles in English are _Swami Vivekananda_ and _Our Earth and Our Environment_
and _Lohangalude Lokam_ (popular science essays) and _Palamukhangal_ (one-act plays)–
both in Malayalam.

_**Teaser**_

_A Mother’s Reflex_

She stood in silence
 in front of the tomb of her little daughter.

From the grieving
 overcast heaven tears dropped.

She pulled
 the loose end of her sari to shield the tombstone lest her dear daughter
might catch a cold.

Tears dried up,
 she sat on the farther corner of the tombstone, her hands stretched
holding the sari end, perhaps to wipe the raindrops from the hair of …

Seconds passed,
 minutes rolled on, she sat there looking into the eerie silence
of the cemetery.

Note: Written after reading a small poem by Tamil poet Ezhil Bharathi

_**Contents**_
 52 poems