# A Speck in the Universe

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2018/06/25/a-speck-in-the-universe/
- Published: 2018-06-25T20:02:50+00:00
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**Author:** Nita B. George[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/A-Speck-in-the-Universe.jpg)
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Pages:** 136 **Year of Publication:** 2018 **Price:** Rs 300 **ISBN: **978-93-5045-
174-8 (9789350451748)

_**About the Author**_
 Poet and short-story writer Nita B. George retired as an
Associate Professor of English after an active teaching career of 37 years. She 
is a graduate from St. Francis College for Women, Secunderabad, and an alumnus of
the Department of English, Arts College, Osmania University. She started writing
late in her life and her first collection of poems, _**[Reflections](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/poetry/redbird/reflections/)**_,
was published in 2012. This was followed by a book of short stories in 2014, _**
[Encounters](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/fiction/greenbird/stories/encounters/)**_,
and another volume of poetry, _**[Confessions and Other Poems](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/confessions-and-other-poems/)**_(
2016). All three books were brought out by **Writers Workshop**, India.  Outside
of writing, she loves spending time with her pets who keep her physically and emotionally
busy.

_**Teaser**_
 Excerpts from the preface to the book:

“This is the memoir of an obscure person, a nobody. There are no great claims to
great achievements, records established, winning posts conquered. Just a story of
a life lived, challenges faced, battles won and then a disappearance from the face
of the earth… lost in the vast universe.

The memoir begins by the author placing the objective of writing it before the reader,
telling the reader not to expect great happenings in the book, telling the reader
also that the memoir is an attempt to analyse all those little forgotten details
of life that have led to the evolution of the soul …

Structurally, the memoir is divided into unmarked ‘fluid’ divisions, for the narrative
does not flow in a set of chronologically ordered chapters but moves in thematic
swings… The author found the stream of consciousness very appropriate for what she
wished to narrate …

The author believes that every life is unique, worthy of a memoir. Every life, to
her, is a world by itself, the joys and sorrows, the challenges, the aspirations,
the achievements, and the human mind, a universe, so very vast, so very deep… and
every person, ‘A Speck in the Universe’.”

_**Contents**_
 _Preface_ / 13

Fluid Contents: / 17
 The Rivulet Turbulent Waters And the World Polluted It It 
Gave The Shooting Star That Never Disintegrated

_Postscript_ / 119

_Photographs_ / 121

_Perceptions_ / 133