# Shillong Suite

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**Author:** Hoshang Merchant
 **Pages:** 52 **Year of Publication:** 2010 **Price:**
HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 **ISBN:** HB FB

_**About the Author:**_
 Hoshang Merchant is India’s first openly gay poet. He has
published over 20 volumes of poetry with **Writers Workshop**, India, since 1989.
He is a respected Queer Theorist with three critical studies on the subject published
by national and international presses and has also published a study of Anais Nin
with **Writers Workshop**. He translates from Urdu as well. He has been a professor
of English at Hyderabad University for the last 24 years.

_**Teaser:**_

_Return to Shillong in Rain_

Rain pelts my Tata Sumo Travelling
 On the mountain-road – I breathe free

2

Winding walkways
 And misty mountain-top: A hundred heroines sing love songs from
a hundred Hindi movies

3

My young Assamese driver
 adjusts the rear-view mirror: Our eyes meet – There is
no more commerce between us

4

An over-wound clock
 I wind down On mountain-top

5

At Police Bazaar
 We get lost He lends me his cell-phone his arm

But I say:
 Like time and tide wait for no man!

He melts away:
 an afternoon’s rain.

(Summer 2010)

_**Contents:**_
 Rain / 11 Return to Shillong in Rain / 14 ‘Ram’ / 16 ‘Coorg’ / 
17 ‘Shesher Kobita’ / 18 ‘Theyyam’ / 19 Shillong English / 20 An Old Bearded Poet
Walks the City / 21 Full Moon in Shillong / 23 Revolutions / 24 Love-song the Death(
after Tagore) / 25 Sex in Shillong (Two Poems) / 26 In Praise of Limestone / 28 
Wine Suite / 30 Sunday Best / 31 Visit to St. Edmund’s, Shillong / 33 Cupid and 
Psyche / 34 India / 36 Christ of Bombay / 37 Elwin Verrier’s House, Shillong / 44
Song / 45 ‘Jefferson Shillo’ / 46 (for my lover from Bihar) / 47 Poem / 48 (Everything
is in the eye) / 49