# Night Charge Extra

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2015/11/27/night-charge-extra/
- Published: 2015-11-27T16:55:31+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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Author: Akhil Katyal
 Pages: 92⌊WP_20151127_14_05_57_Pro⌉ Year of Publication:
2015 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-107-6 (9789350451076)

_**About the Author**_
 Akhil Katyal is a writer and translator, working in Hindi
and English. He was born in Bareilly in 1985, spent his childhood in Dehradun and
Lucknow, graduated from Hindu College and St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and received
his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. In 2014, he was
selected by the Indian magazine, _The Caravan _as one of the five best emerging 
writers in India and was invited to participate in the Writers of India festival
in Paris that year. As a translator, he has translated the works of poets like Amrita
Pritam, Om Prakesh Valmiki and Langston Hughes. At present, Akhil is based in Delhi
where he teaches literature. This is his first book of poetry.

_**Teaser**_

_Moments before she died_
 Delhi 29.12.12

It is the night of foreboding

her skin is again
 translucent

and all the past is a story
 without a moral

this night refuses to rest
 on little promises

recalling again the promise
 the coral stone of a world very different from the 
one we live in

this night remains
 like shell-shock

lies like a fetter –
 this waiting for bad to get worse for it to get better

this night hangs in the air
 like the deserter who has seen through the war, his
world is now refusal

(that night, the first thing she asked
 when she was conscious again was whether
they had been caught)

she lived each moment she died
 each

and this night remains
 because she has offered her sleeve to hold but we are not
bold enough to reach.

[for Jyoti Pandey]

_**Contents**_
 64 poems