# The Making of a Poet

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2017/12/16/the-making-of-a-poet/
- Published: 2017-12-16T00:43:19+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Arnab Chakraborty[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/The-Making-of-a-Poet.jpg)
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Pages:** 72 **Year of Publication:** 2017 **Price:** Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
164-9 (9789350451649)

_**About the Author**_
 Arnab Chakraborty has lived a rather varied life in his 
twenty-seven years in the dystopic sector of Behala in the lovely city of Calcutta.
His love for poetry compelled him to leave a career in civil engineering, bringing
him to study literature instead, after a year of working as a correspondent at IBNS.
His writing is informed by his many experiences in academics, journalism and beyond.
He currently resides in Calcutta with his parents and his four cats.

_**Teaser**_

_While I Was Kissing Her_

While I was kissing her at the crossing,
 5 people were happy, 27 posts were made
against it, 45 people decried the loss of culture, 66 adults questioned its need,
Almost 80 said “no” (With a few in half-minds), And while over a hundred felt jealous,
The rest felt shocked.

While I was kissing her at the crossing,
 5 kids were sold. 27 people went missing,
45 people were traumatized for life, 66 adults got away with rape and murder, Almost
80 lost their right to say No! (With a few who lost their right to say anything),
And while over a hundred felt the loss of innocence, The rest felt nothing.

We are young,
 At fault and stupid in the fight over mistakes, While it is true 
that sometimes we do run over the edge, We do disregard the barriers of others Or
take a skip too far; Find fault in that edge, that barrier or skip, But don’t stop
us from running,

Because, while I was kissing her at the crossing,
 True evil still lurks In the 
corners of your alleys and minds.

_**Contents**_
 _Preface_ / 9

**Cracks** / 11
 1 / 13 2 / 14 3 / 16 4 / 18 5 / 20 On Love / 21 7 / 23 8 / 24 The
Evening Prayer / 25 10 / 27 To the Honourable Soldiers of the Nation / 29

**Shards** / 33
 Blue Umbrella / 35 Forgetting to Wish on Woman’s Day / 37 _Hazaron
Khawishe Aisi_ / 39 I Am Nowhere / 42 I took a slight left turn the other day / 
43 I want to write a difficult love poem / 44 It’s 1870 / 46 Ode to the Loss of 
Empathy / 48 On Getting a Tiger / 49 Prime Minister and Nudity / 51 The Vampire 
Who Loved Garlic / 53 While I Was Kissing Her / 54

**Fragments** / 55