# Raindrops on the Periwinkle

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2022/09/15/raindrops-on-the-periwinkle/
- Published: 2022-09-15T01:15:19+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author: **Nishi Pulugurtha[⌊A sample cover of the book: black 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/2022/09/Raindrops-on-the-Periwinkle.jpeg)
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Pages:** 72 **Year of Publication:** 2022 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-81-956648-
4-9 (9788195664849)

_**About the Author**_
 Nishi Pulugurtha is an academic and writer based in Kolkata.
Her publications include a monograph, _Derozio_ (2010), a collection of essays on
travel, _Out in the Open _(2019), an edited volume of essays on travel, _Across 
and Beyond_ (2020), a volume of poems, _The Real and the Unreal and Other Poems_(
2020), a collection of short stories, _The Window Sill_ (2021), and a co-edited 
volume of poems, _Voices and Vision: The First IPPL Anthology_ (2021). She is working
on a book project that brings together recipes from the Telugu kitchen in Kolkata
with tales of growing up in Calcutta/Kolkata. She also writes on Alzheimer’s disease.
Her edited volume of critical essays titled _Literary Representation of Pandemics,
Epidemics and Pestilence _is forthcoming from Routledge.

_**About the Book**_
 In her preface to the book, Dr Pulugurtha writes:

“It is the trying times that the pandemic brought about, the experiences of strange
times that are still so much a part of life, of learning to deal with things in 
such times with all their restrictions that made me work at writing more form poems.
The little bit of nature around me that I could see in my locked-in state, during
my evening walks on the terrace with the blue sky above, the myriad cloud shapes,
the birds headed home, gathering for a while and dispersing, the kites in the sky,
the few other people on other terraces around, the trees and plants in my small 
green space that brought in so much colour and delight in difficult times, and Amma
who has Alzheimer’s disease, became the subject matter of my form poems as well.”

A review of the book can be read in **[Cafe Dissensus](https://cafedissensuseveryday.com/2023/01/09/book-review-nishi-pulugurthas-raindrops-on-the-periwinkle/)**.

_**Teaser**_

shrieking, shouting — home
 frightening scary walls close to breathe to live — Home

_**Contents**_
 60 form poems