# From the Terrace

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- Published: 2015-07-19T19:04:33+00:00
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**Author:** Pramod Shankar
 **Pages:** 42 **Year of Publication:** 2000 **Price:**
HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 **ISBN:** HB 81-7595-712-3 (8175957123) FB 81-7595-713-1 (8175957131)

**_About the Author:_**
 Pramod Shankar was born in 1962, in a quiet, green little
town in Kerala. He spent his childhood alternating between the fairly bustling city
life of Cochin and the paddy fields and monsoon groves of his father’s village. 
He was always surrounded by an atmosphere of books and writing. Whether in his school,
college or professional life (as an advertising copywriter), writing provided him
with a quiet and comfortable refuge. He has written a book on AIDS, Ayurveda as 
well as a few poems. In his own words, he writes in order to: “say a few simple 
things to a few people who understand. To give a chance to the child in me to speak.
To create little worlds that are special. And sometimes, to hold on tightly to myself.”

**_Teaser:_**

_Hit and Miss_

Watching the pole star
 split and burst each smithereen drowning in the dead sea
watching crafty spiders fashion webs each a masterpiece. I spend hours rolls of 
canvas tons of paint and fail to create anything let alone snare a fly.

**_Contents:_**
 Speakeasy / 9 Hit and Miss / 11 Perceptions / 12 Exit / 13 Birthday/
15 Downstream / 16 Premiere / 17 Damp / 19 Threadbare / 20 Rain Tree / 22 These 
Are the Days / 23 Tonight / 25 Then and Now / 26 Listen? / 27 Hangover Square / 
28 Fire / 30 No Thanks / 31 Question to an Artist Who Killed Himself / 32 Whose 
Paradise? / 34 Red Sports Car / 35 Feelers / 37 Weekend Wist / 38 Way to Go / 39
Carrier / 40 Bitter Course / 41 Welcome! / 42