# Treading on Gnarled Sand

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**Author:** K. S. Subramanian
 **Pages:** 124 **Year of Publication:** 2011 **Price:**
Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-009-3 (9789350450093)

_**About the Author**_
 K. S. Subramanian is an Assistant Editor with _The Hindu_.
He has worked as a journalist for 27 years. He holds post-graduate degrees in English
Literature and Defence Studies from the University of Kerala and the University 
of Madras respectively. His poems have been published in several anthologies within
and outside India. His first book of poems, _**Ragpickers**_ was published by **
Writers Workshop**, India.

_**Teaser**_

_A Middle Class Home_

You can see it all in a wedding;
 Clusters spilling the beans about their kin; eyeing
the debutantes into wedlock with their web of envy-laced malice.

Their hearths are burning at home.
 Yet a nameless vacuum like dust in the attic;
they live with it.

The syndrome spans the spectrum
 of the middle and the affluent; only the lingo 
is of different mien; sophisticated gossip sounds sweeter; all brewing out of envy-
laced malice.

Age withers them; what they
 learn in their twenties becomes an uneasy crown in 
the seventies; Amusing! The pathos of existence or preordained fate?

_**Contents**_
 58 poems spread over 7 sections