# So I Used Gray and other Poems

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**Author:** Amitava Chakrabarty
 **Pages:** 64 **Year of Publication:** 2010 **Price:**
HB Rs 120, FB Rs 100 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-947-8 (9788181579478) FB 978-81-8157-
948-5 (9788181579485)

_**About the Author:**_
 Amitava Chakrabarty is a Marine Officer of the Kolkata 
Port Trust by profession and a journalist, writer and poet by passion. He has written
articles for the _Hindustan Times_ and his poems have been published in _The Statesman_,
_The Times of India_ and _The Asian Age_. His poems have also appeared in journals
like _Phoenix – the New Life Poetry_, _Poetcrit-India_ and _Metverse Muse_. His 
first anthology of poems was called _Solitude_.

_**Teaser:**_

_IPL in a Village_

The Embers of hunger,
 Of ruthless exploitation, The impotent anger arising Of perennial
plunders Of crimes and commissions Of the political masters Is simmering slow As
the idiot-box is aglow With Cricket Matinee’s Show.

Gaping half-fed eyes,
 Fed with sixes and dances, Splashed with countless colours
In tattered canvas of their lives, They cheer the cheerleaders; They relate with
themselves The spicy ads which incite And enhance their cravings – Like parched 
earth of summer.

The burns really hurt
 After the last over, When the pangs of hunger Return with
as much vengeance, And the chaos surrenders To the silence of terror And life limps
on With the leftovers – Of the coloured oppressors.

_**Contents:**_
 46 poems