# Broken Barriers

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- Published: 2015-07-19T19:22:17+00:00
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**Author:** Seemeen Ali
 **Pages:** 38 **Price:** HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 **Year of 
Publication:** 2008 ** ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157- 815-0 (9788181578150) FB 978-81-8157-
816-7 (9788181578167)

_**About the Author:**_
 Seemeen Ali was born in Agra and was educated in St. Mary’s
Convent, Allahabad. She completed her graduation and post-graduation in English 
literature from Miranda House, University of Delhi. She plans to research further
in the same subject.

_**Teaser:**_

_Who am I?_

Eyes behold
 A dark blue sky Stars strewn on it like grains of rice on a blue mat
Leaves of a tree hide the sky show it again Eyes shift from the dark sky to a dark
leaf Am I the sky? Or the leaf?

_**Contents:**_
 Who am I? / 9 Search / 10 Power/Mockery / 11 Existence Questioned/
12 Resilience / 13 Alienated / 14 Evade, evade / 15 My fight / 16 Evening / 17 Colours/
18 Reasons to exist / 19 Stop! / 20 Ahoy Matriarch / 21 For a friend / 22 Haven 
interrupted / 23 Law less / 24 Predestination / 25 Grandmother / 26 Mother / 27 
Relentless search / 27 Dilemma / 28 Freedom to fall / 29 I wanted to say so much/
30 Protest / 32 Where do I go from here? / 33 Belief / 34 Tomorrow / 35 The Neem
Tree / 36 Friends’ reunion / 37 I am leaving you / 38