# All the Spaces in Between

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**Author:** Usha Raman
 **Pages:** 56 **Year of Publication:** 2009 **Price:** HB
Rs 120, FB Rs 100 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-913-3 (9788181579133) FB 978-81-8157-
914-0 (9788181579140)

_**About the Author**_
 Usha Raman is a communications professional based in Hyderabad,
having worked as a journalist, freelance writer and scientific editor for over two
decades. She received a doctorate in communications from the University of Georgia
in the United States after completing her undergraduate and initial professional
degree from Osmania University in Hyderabad. She has written extensively for newspapers
and magazines, on a wide range of topics including health, education, women’s rights,
technology and issues pertaining to societies in transition. For nearly five years,
she wrote a regular column for _The Hindu_, entitled “Career Quest”. She has been
working with the University of Hyderabad where she teaches media writing and science
communication in the Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Communication.
Usha lives with her husband, Upendran – a writer and teacher – and their two daughters,
Achala and Ananya.

_**Teaser**_

_A daughter is born_

Dredged up
 From the depths of neo-natal experience A memory stirs. While head and
hands groped for life In the womb-darkness Of pre-birth, Tiny feet found Their first
breath In the bright hospital air. A little body Inched out into The adult world,
defined By adult-set hopes. Before even, The baby eyes saw Their first rays of light,
The voices fell – “It’s a girl”.

_**Contents**_
 35 poems