# The Songs from the Hills

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/03/25/the-songs-from-the-hills/
- Published: 2016-03-25T04:25:50+00:00
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**Author:** Charanjeet Kaur[⌊WP_20160324_16_39_49_Pro⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WP_20160324_16_39_49_Pro.jpg)
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Pages:** 96 **Year of Publication:** 2015 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
113-7 (9789350451137)

_**About the Author**_
 Charanjeet Kaur has been a UGC Associate at the Indian Institute
of Advanced Study, Shimla, and retired as Head of the Department of English and 
I/C Principal of Smt. Chandibai Himathmal Mansukhani College, Ulhasnagar.  As an
academician, her areas of interest include Indian literatures in English and translation,
women’s studies, Gandhian studies, literary criticism and cinema studies, on which
she has contributed research articles to scholarly journals. Her poems have been
published in _Chandrabhaga, Manushi, Kavya Bharati, Conifers Call, _and_ Hans India_
and_ _her short stories in _Manushi_ and _New Quest. _ At present, she is the Chief
Editor of_ Muse India – the literary ejournal (_[www.museindia.com](http://www.museindia.com))._
_This is Charanjeet Kaur’s second poetry collection. Her first book, _**Mirror Image
and Other Poems**_ was also published by** [WRITERS WORKSHOP](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/poetry/redbird/mirror-image-and-other-poems/)**,
India, in 2009. 

_**Teaser**_

_A Song from the Hills (I)_

Some day
 You may hold the packaged hills in your palm: Open the box if you care…
For the icy winds that touch the sprinkled houses On the slopes, The dark tall trees
that probe into the depths of the earth, The flowers awash in colours deeper than
the clouds, The monkeys who stare with sad, inquisitive eyes, The silence, land-
locked, nestling in the valleys, and long winding roads that  seem to lose themselves
as if in the labyrinths of the mind… interspersed with what you never asked for…

All this lies nascent in it:
 Unfold it – if you will; or let it live buried forever
in the spiralling, endless roads over here…

_**Contents**_
 60 poems spread across 5 sections