# Minor Key and Other Poems

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**Author:** Vasanth Kannabiran[⌊WP_20151211_15_21_04_Pro⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WP_20151211_15_21_04_Pro.jpg)
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Pages:** 60 **Year of Publication:** 2015 **Price:** Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
104-5 (9789350451045)

_**About the Author**_
 Vasanth Kannabiran graduated in English Literature from 
Presidency College, Madras, and she taught English to undergraduates for twenty 
years. She has been an active member of the women’s movement in India, speaking 
and writing about women’s concerns, and has played a significant role in introducing
feminist issues to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Kannabiran has been a consultant
for the Central Government of India for evaluations and policy making, bilateral
and multilateral agencies, and has prepared studies on gender and human rights, 
gender and poverty and gender training. She has worked closely with the Women’s 
Program of the Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education and the National Alliance
of Women. A founding member of Asmita Resource Centre for Women, she has co-edited
and co-authored publications like _Mahilavaranam, De-Eroticizing Assault_ and _E-
Kalam_. Her most recent publication is _A Grief to Bury: Memories of Love, Work 
and Loss_. Kannabiran was nominated from India among 1000 women for the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2005.

_**Teaser**_

_Shanti_

Gently flowing streams
 contained in banks mirroring green leaves that lean over
from overhanging branches shadows rippling the sparkling waters lit with silver 
blue and green tints placid cool waters calm and sure emanating a pervasive peace
a fish cleaving the calm waters in measured paths a hawk circling slowly above masking
deep buried passions, submerged desires, long forgotten dreams sparks of extinguished
fires ash-clothed embers that if stoked could come alive erupting in molten mindful
lava that would erase the dangerous calm of those green banks. A grace that passes
all perfection. A mind honed to the truth of existence a keen intellect and critical
mind sacrificed at the altar of hearth and home a heart mindfully alive to the thorny
paths of the road not taken. Om Shanti.

_**Contents**_
 _Preface_ / 9 Home Is Where the Heart Is / 11 Lately / 13 Looking
at Myself / 14 Talisman / 15 Nightmare / 17 Rising into Age / 18 Crime Brief / 19
Woman Living / 21 Can’t You Hear / 23 Woman Dying / 24 Aging / 25 Don’t / 26 How?/
27 Hymn to a Daughter / 28 Goodbye / 29 Losing Hope / 31 Kehar Singh / 33 Minor 
Key / 35 Visible Greed / 37 Mother / 39 Benishan / 41 Relief / 42 December 90 / 
43 Body / 44 Asmita / 47 Riding the Waves / 50 Partition Song / 51 Shanti / 55 Ten
Years / 56