# Blank

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2021/07/06/2597/
- Published: 2021-07-06T20:49:48+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author: **Debarun Sarkar[⌊A sample cover of the book: dark 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/2021/07/Blank-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 68 **Year of Publication:** 2021 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-81-949985-
7-0 (9788194998570)

_**About the Author**_
 Debarun Sarkar sleeps, reads, eats, drinks, smokes, labours,
occasionally (ghost)writes and submits. He has spent a considerable amount of time
living in Surat, Calcutta, New Town, Hyderabad, Bombay and is currently halting 
at Bangalore.

_**Teaser**_

_Gentrified Neighbourhoods_

Landscapes gentrified out of hamlets
 with sky-reaching habitable structures

are always surrounded by huge roads
 and are almost always bereft of trees.

The dryness of the street dries the breath
 with sunlight and dust. Huge asphalt

of parking yard shines, reflects as
 if its glorious existence mattered

to be displayed like an installation art
 at an art gallery in the art district.

The 40-storeyed building looks down
 on the street like a frail person

so thin, so weak, without any sense
 of grandeur like the brutalist structures.

Cars with their a/c switched on speed
 past, blasting hot air and dust into

passer-by bodies struggling to locate
 a public bus or an affordable hawker.

_**Contents**_

… _for a ground to stand on_ … / 9
 18 poems

… _and not belong to_ … / 35
 18 poems