# Under the Southern Sky

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**Author:** Samir Ranjan Chatterjee
 **Pages:** 64 **Year of Publication:** 2014**
Price:** Rs 150 / $25 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-074-1 (9789350450741)

_**About the Author**_
 Samir Ranjan Chatterjee was born in Madaripur, Bangladesh
and spent his childhood in Calcutta and Nagpur. He moved out of India in 1971 and
has lived and worked for the past forty years in several countries, with a permanent
base in Perth, Australia, where he is an Emeritus Professor at Curtin University.
He has also worked as a United Nations advisor, a consultant for the Asian Development
Bank and as an AusAid capacity-building project director in a number of countries
in Asia.

_**Teaser**_

_Like to Tell You_

I read with my eyes closed
 Smelling life dreaming of the colour red Vibrant and
youthful yet a scary look

Raging storm bends trees low
 Touching ground they tremble They whisper in fear 
Autumn leaves rustle While empty cans like shooting stars With whirling wind full
of dust Blind me, while I walk down the road

“I’ll tell you a story”,
 That was a promise made some time ago Crumpled text aimed
for rubbish bin Dried ink, unfinished words Around me float aimlessly Like rainclouds
in summer sky

Memories soaking in tears
 Add to the pain, to the agony Slowly turning I saw flash
of red More like raw flesh Dripping blood red Not the red nose I read, Or the divine
sweetness I smelt, With my eyes closed

_**Contents**_
 41 poems