# Simantani: Boundless

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**Author:** Preeti Singh
 **Pages:** 121 **Year of Publication:** 2007 **Price:**
HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 ** ISBN:** 81-8157-654-3 (8181576543)

**_About the Author_**
 Preeti Singh was born to middle class literature-loving 
parents, both of whom wrote in English and Hindi. Since her father was in the armed
forces they traveled all over the country and she went to eleven schools! She graduated
in Journalism from Nagpur University and has a post graduate degree in Business 
Management from Lucknow University. She has worked for about 20 years in private,
government and academic institutions. At present, she is based in Delhi.

**_ Teaser_**

_It Mattered_

when i was
 very young i didn’t know being a girl mattered but as i grew i knew 
it mattered at eleven i became a woman you know how i couldn’t play darkroom and
i couldn’t sit close to him to read comics something within protested after all 
i felt like a kid and was still flat-chested but i was a girl and it mattered at
seventeen i wanted to give my opinion but they said i was still too young i tried
to be a girl and a woman in the struggle i lost my identity

**_Contents_**

Section I / 11-80

it mattered / 13
 left behind / 14 now to eternity / 15 thank you / 17 castles in
the air / 19 pregnant moments / 20 urgency / 21 moments lost / 22 flimsy thread /
23 nothingness / 24 bankruptcy / 26 immortal / 28 magnified / 29 spoilt / 30 explode/
31 till then / 32 abandon / 34 vermilion / 35 hearse / 36 hypnotic deceit / 38 simantini/
40 point of no return / 42 a thousand miles / 43 tentative recovery / 44 night in
your eyes / 45 pearls / 46 haze of proximity / 47 robbed / 47 distant rumblings /
48 diminishing stature / 49 took my all / 50 stop the watch / 52 lost cause / 53
time / 55 shutters down / 56 gnawing hunger / 57 unreal / 58 dialogue / 59 pits 
of oblivion / 60 agony of no return / 62 sorcery / 63 negating reality / 64 deflowered/
65 wedded / 67 woman / 68 bondage / 67 clipped wings / 69 loved naught / 70 man &
wife / 70 epitaph / 71 pre-occupied / 72 packed in / 73 animal instincts / 75 legal
sanction / 76 summer time / 77 agony of restraint / 78 peeping betrayal / 79

SECTION II / 81-121

piecemeal / 83
 crumbs / 84 lies / 85 virginal / 87 very basic / 88 coffin / 89 
poison / 90 infinite / 91 hysteria / 92 shadows / 93 diluted / 94 spinning yarn /
95 morning dew / 96 one in a million / 97 naked shame / 98 disintegration / 99 rationed/
100 morbid colours / 101 twilight / 102 me and my god / 103 moving force / 104 swallowed/
105 fuel / 106 us and them / 107 freezing point / 108 distances / 109 symphony /
110 freedom / 111 bursting of life / 112 frozen / 113 well deep / 114 ashes / 115
life’s afternoon / 116 give unasked / 117 walk away free / 118 journey alone / 119
could i heal / 120 spoil me / 121