# Plato in a Metro

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2020/03/21/plato-in-a-metro/
- Published: 2020-03-21T00:41:59+00:00
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**Author:** Sinchan Chatterjee[⌊A sample cover of the book: aquamarine 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/2020/03/Plato-in-a-Metro-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 84 **Year of Publication:** 2019 **Price:** Rs 250 **ISBN: **978-81-944057-
5-7 (9788194405757)

_**About the Author**_
 Born in 1998, Sinchan Chatterjee graduated with English 
Honours from St Xavier’s College, Kolkata, and is now pursuing his Master’s in English
at Jadavpur University. He loves writing short stories, prose poems, poetic prose,
and has started writing for the stage. His debut collection of short stories, _In
Search of a Story_, was published in 2018 and reviewed in a few journals. Sinchan’s
stories have also been printed in _The Statesman_. A number of school and college
magazines like _The Xaverian, Ode to Expressions, Srijan _have also published his
poems and prose works.

_**Teaser**_

_Lullabies_

You used to sit by my bedside
 And gently run your hand over my forehead To smooth
out all the invisible wrinkles of the day And make up new stories every night to
lull me to sleep.

I strained my ears and my eyes to keep them awake,
 To listen to your story weave
itself. I ended up failing each time, succumbing to slumber, Apologizing the next
morning for not having heard your story to the end.

Tonight my eyes and my ears promise complete attention.
 I am wide awake. Begin 
your story: I will hear it till the last word.

As I lie sleepless tonight,
 Twenty years away from lullaby-induced sleep That sent
me off to faraway dreamlands, I wonder if you believed in the dreams You gently 
nudged me into. I wonder, when I fell asleep, Did you finish whispering The rest
of the lullaby To yourself?

_For my father_

_**Contents**_
 54 poems