# Cud on a Plate

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2018/04/16/cud-on-a-plate/
- Published: 2018-04-16T17:56:10+00:00
- Author: shuktara

Rate this post

**Author:** Bivin A. Peter (Athi)[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Cud-on-a-Plate.jpg)
**
Pages:** 88 **Year of Publication:** 2018 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
172-4 (9789350451724)

_**About the Author**_
 Bivin A. Peter prefers to use the pen name Athi, which was
given to him by his late friend, Abhayan. He describes this collection as “partly
digested thoughts pressed upon a paper which are going to be chewed on further from
this book by all those who read it, hence the title **_Cud on a Plate_**.”

_**Teaser**_

_Corporate Indian-American_

What’s Indian about this man?
 His disgust for toilet paper? Yes, he’s a strong 
believer of water-wash guided by his left hand. His brown cookie colour, I suppose,
his Indo trying to be British accent altered by the regular intake of American series
like a _faluda_ – where ice cream is just an ingredient.

He says: “What’s up?”
 followed with a hi-five. He’s a fan of Harley-Davidson, works
in an American company, wears a Nike t-shirt with Levi Strauss & Co. jeans and a
Crocs slip-on. Should I mention Jockey innerwear? C’mon! Back from his daytime job,
he pours for himself a shot of JD while watching _Friends_ on an HP laptop munching
Lays waiting for the KFC home delivery ordered online through his iPhone.

All of this looked over by a poster of
 The Doors hanging on his wall facing a confused
Indian neatly gift-wrapped by Americans.

_**Contents**_
 50 poems