# Woman at the Traffic Signal

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2023/03/02/woman-at-the-traffic-signal/
- Published: 2023-03-02T10:00:42+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author: **Ghazala Shamim Siddiqi[⌊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/2023/03/Woman-at-the-Traffic-Signal.jpeg)

**Pages:** 106
 **Year of Publication:** 2023 **Price:** Rs 400 **ISBN:** 978-81-
961291-0-1 (9788196129101)

_**About the Author**_
 Ghazala Siddiqi has a Ph. D. in Education and has contributed
to materials development, content writing and reviewing at various organizations
such as the National Council of Educational Research and Training, Cambridge University
Press and Burlington Publications. She teaches English at Jamia Millia Islamia, 
New Delhi. She is an English language expert in the Access Micro Scholarship Teaching
Program offered by the American Center, New Delhi, and also works as Trainer and
Program Coordinator for an international project of World Learning, USA. She has
taught English as a second language at the primary, secondary and university levels
and led many professional development and training programmes for teachers and students
in government and public academic institutions. She has authored academic books 
for Cambridge University Press. Her papers and articles have been published in national
and international journals. She lives in New Delhi with her family.

_**Teaser**_

_The Grid_

On Zoom
 we talk of endless skies and starry nights and endless love and endless
trudges on sands of time

when clocks on walls
 just melt like wax and mock the shadow of the sun across the
verandah through a mesh of steel

we talk of endless stretch of blue
 from gold to vermillion and black how effortless
is the transition! I wonder as I watch a second melt and drip

when I unZoom I see
 my endless skies in grids

_**Contents**_
 68 poems and translations