# Of Fireflies, Guns and the Hills

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/03/01/of-fireflies-guns-and-the-hills/
- Published: 2016-03-01T21:10:50+00:00
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**Author:** Babitha Marina Justin[⌊WP_20151211_15_20_49_Pro⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WP_20151211_15_20_49_Pro.jpg)
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Pages:** 60 **Year of Publication:** 2015 **Price:** Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
106-9 (9789350451069)

_**About the Author**_
 Babitha Marina Justin is a Reader in English at the Indian
Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram. Her poems have appeared
in _Ogazine, The Four Quarters Magazine, Taj Mahal Review, Kritya_ and _Journal 
of Post Colonial Literature_. She divides her time between teaching, research, painting
and poetry.

_**Teaser**_

_Uprooted: Part Two_

Every day, every night,
 young Thangjam Shimrey dreams of the gurgling forest brook
back home.

He wears the memory of it
 around his neck like his own hyphenated Naga-Meitei self.
Then he strums his guitar in the dingy hostel-hole of a sunburnt city, and tries
hard not to remember the groping games boys play, the grenades whizzing past his
ear, and the cold, sharp slap of water when he lost his innocence in Ukhrul’s icy
churn.

_**Contents**_
 38 poems spread over 3 sections