# On the Autorickshaw Ride Home

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- Published: 2020-02-18T14:57:15+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Antara Chakraborty[⌊A sample cover of the book: deep purple coloured handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/On-the-Autorickshaw-Ride-Home-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 68 **Year of Publication:** 2019 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN: **978-81-944057-
2-6 (9788194405726)

_**About the Author**_
 Antara Chakraborty is an editor based in Pune. Originally
from Kolkata, she is a prolific and habitual writer of poetry. She was among the
top 30 winners of the Wingword Poetry Prize 2017 and was featured in the highly 
prestigious _The Poet’s Showcase and Yearbook_ in the same year. Her work has also
appeared in various editions of _Dyuti_.

Antara’s entrepreneurial venture Panda Poet completed three years in January 2020;
it began with the sole purpose of bringing together like-minded poets. The venture
has organized poetry reading sessions, slams, and contests in Pune, Kolkata and 
Bangalore so far and plans to expand pan-India.

Her work can be found at [https://www.instagram.com/panda.poet/.](https://www.instagram.com/panda.poet/.)

_**Teaser**_

_Overthinking_

One day you’ll realize
 I’m not worth it, And leave. I know that day Will come. 
Soon. And maybe then I’ll stop picking Bougainvilleas On my way home; Come. Lie 
down. Not leave the room For a week. And that will be the end of me.

_**Contents**_
 35 poems