# Dust

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2019/04/09/dust/
- Published: 2019-04-09T02:22:28+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Nileen Putatunda [](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Dust.jpeg)
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Pages:** 64 **Year of Publication:** 2018 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
192-2 (9789350451922)

_**About the Author**_
 Nileen Putatunda was born in 1978 in Calcutta. He did his
schooling in St. Mary’s School, Bombay, and St. James’ School, Calcutta. He graduated
from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, in 2000 and worked for some time in the social
development sector. Prior to this one, eight books of his spiritual poetry have 
been published by **Writers Workshop**, India, between 2006 and 2017. His books 
have been reviewed in the international Vedanta journals, _Prabuddha Bharata, Samvit,
The Advent_ and _The Vedanta_ _Kesari_,_ _and in _The Journal of Commonwealth Literature_
and _The Times of India_. **_[Annya](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/poetry/redbird/annya/)_**,
published by **Writers Workshop** in 2009, was short-listed for the Muse India Young
Writer Award 2011. Nileen’s poems have appeared in journals like _Samvit, Muse India,_
_American Vedantist_ and _The Mountain Path_ and his articles have come out in the
opinion space of newspapers.

_**Teaser**_

_Unborn_

Ma,
 You said Grief itself Is a gift From God; Is it because Grief is the mother
Of virtue? Here, Labour pains continue For more than Two decades With the baby unborn.

6 July 2017, Kolkata

_**Contents**_
 93 poems