# Beggar

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- Published: 2015-07-19T19:28:38+00:00
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**Author:** Nileen Putatunda
 **Pages:** 80 **Year of Publication:** 2013 **Price:**
Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-054-3 (9789350450543)

_**About the Author**_
 Nileen Putatunda was born in 1978 in Calcutta. He did most
of his schooling in St. Mary’s School in Bombay. He graduated from St. Stephen’s
College, Delhi, in 2000 and worked for some time in the social development sector.
Six books of his spiritual poetry have been published by **Writers Workshop**, India
between 2006 and 2011. His books have been reviewed in the international Vedanta
journals, _Prabuddha Bharata, Samvit, The Advent_ and _The Vedanta Kesari_. _**Annya**_,
published by **Writers Workshop** in 2009, was short-listed for the Muse India Young
Writer Award 2011. Nileen’s poems have appeared in journals like _American Vedantist_
and _The Mountain Path_ and his articles have come out in the opinion space of newspapers.

_**Teaser**_

_Staircase_

He says he’s twenty-two,
 Selling coconut water From age seven, Sleeping on the 
footpath at night, He sweetly asks me If I will give him place Beneath my staircase,
I tell him, I’m a guest in a home That doesn’t belong to me, I leave, Haunted by
his question.

_**Contents**_
 69 poems