# Sand Column

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2019/03/18/sand-column/
- Published: 2019-03-18T19:42:57+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Purabi Bhattacharya[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Sand-Column.jpeg)
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Pages:** 96 **Year of Publication:** 2019 **Price:** Rs 300 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
191-5 (9789350451915)

_**About the Author**_
 Purabi Bhattacharya is a Gujarat-based writer of poetry 
and prose, hailing from Shillong. Her first book of poetry, _**[Call Me](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/poetry/call-me/)**_,
was published by **Writers Workshop**, India, in 2015.

_**Teaser**_

_From the northwest_

From the northwest a strong wind blows
 it sees most farmlands and hutments, stunned
and sulking promises tossed out through the Arabian and the sea turns pale.

Fourteen summers have gone. Fourteen times
 between hot contour sheets, love melted
we were set to pick up our shovels clear the sheaf the veterans have left half-done.

I volatile, you vulnerable
 you burn, I am frozen, neither something is in flames,
even if in pyre it is not yet in ashes.

Fending for ourselves, with our words unmated
 blaming it on bad weather, we have
only escaped our solecism. I wish there was something original in all that you and
I lost ourselves to.

_**Contents**_
 61 poems spread across 2 sections