# Old Friends’ Parade

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2015/11/27/old-friends-parade/
- Published: 2015-11-27T14:32:54+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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[⌊WP_20151127_14_06_11_Pro⌉⌊WP_20151127_14_06_11_Pro⌉[**Author:** Gankhu Sumnyan
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Pages:** 44 **Year of Publication:** 2015 **Price:** Rs 100 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
094-9 (9789350450949)

_**About the Author**_
 Gankhu Sumnyan belongs to the Noctre tribe of Arunachal 
Pradesh. After his graduation from Christ University, he worked for a few years 
at Amar Chitra Katha, writing content and stories for their various publications.
At present, he is Assistant Professor of English at Wangcha Rajkumar Government 
College, Deomali, Tirap district, Arunachal Pradesh.

_**About the Book**_
 The book was shortlisted for the Satish Verma Young Writers’
Award 2015, organized by Muse India. A sample poem is given below.

_Clear Sky Day_

Each day is a long wait
 like the ripening fruit of the lemon tree that slowly acquires
juice and scent, takes up yellow by losing the tinge of green and in tiny mounds
stores its soul (borrowed from the sun) and distilled with the red of the earth.

And in that infinite wait
 if you come across a bee buzzing about will you tell 
it that it’s not time yet? That there still are seasons to go, that there are things
more to consider and that if it didn’t know, life will pass under the tree dozing
to the murmur of that sweet ripening?

_**Contents:**_
 _Preface_ / 9 For Mother / 11 Of Arunachal / 12 Birthday Song /
13 First Timers / 14 I Wish Love Were / 15 Rainbow / 16 Stalking / 17 Love Form /
18 Depth of Sand / 19 Clear Sky Day / 20 Mrs. Dalloway / 21 Old Friends’ Parade /
22 Loss / 23 Awakening Cold / 24 Early January in Hyderabad / 25 Teacher in a Classroom/
26 Koramangala 8th Block / 27 To Be Careful with Books / 28 Nonsense / 29 Panel 
Discussion / 30 For C / 31 Year to Year / 32 At Sixty / 33 Beauty-Body / 34 Art’s
Difficulty / 37 Happiness / 38 Slug Woman / 39