# A Tinge of Turmeric

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**Author:** Pervin Chhapkhanawala
 **Pages:** 48 **Year of Publication:** 2009 **
Price:** HB Rs 120, FB Rs 100 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-843-3 (9788181578433) FB 
978-81-8157-844-0 (9788181578440)

_**About the Author**_
 Pervin Chhapkhanawala is a writer, editor and poet. Born
in Mumbai in 1984, she studied in Queen Mary School, St. Xavier’s College and then
obtained her M.A. in English Literature from S.N.D.T. University in 2007. She works
as an English language consultant at a publishing house that brings out academic
books. She also writes for _India Today’s_ _Prevention_ and _Pink_, _Bride and Style_,
_trendelicious.com_ and a few other publications. Outside of writing, she holds 
a black belt in karate. At present, she stays with her husband in Pune.

_**Teaser**_

_Unloving You_

It’s hardest but most essential
 Reversing all the distance Distancing all the closeness
Eyes indulge a last rinse Skin cells undo the caress.

That, or risk

The love turning grotesque
 Bathed in jealousy Steeped in comparison Lose all sensitivity
Shrink the grandeur within.

Either one has to die
 The love or the potential. Correction, The love would have
died anyway. I save what can be saved.

_**Contents**_
 I danced / 9 A visit from void / 10 A repeat visit from void / 11
Cheating / 12 Hole in my heart / 13 Winner / 14 The enemy / 15 Candle and love /
16 Snow White wakes up / 17 The 1:15 silence / 18 Unloving you / 19 Twenty six letters/
20 Time, my lover / 21 The river / 22 The pact / 23 The Lost Woman / 24 The bear
hunt / 25 Spinning / 27 Now the tears don’t fall / 28 A poet / 29 No, I don’t think
of you / 30 No, don’t say it / 31 Mummy / 32 Neighbours / 33 Holding back / 34 Heart
on rent / 35 Don’t expect / 36 Capital punishment / 37 An unequal battle / 38 Absent
presence / 39 I wait for myself / 40 Wonderland ceased to be / 41 A marathon love/
42 Dragons / 43 A tinge of turmeric / 44