# And How We’ve Been

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2025/09/23/and-how-weve-been/
- Published: 2025-09-23T20:45:09+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Sahana Mukherjee[⌊A sample cover of the book: teal 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/2025/09/And-How-Weve-Been-scaled-1.jpg)
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Pages:** 62 **Year of Publication:** 2025 **Price:** ₹250 **ISBN:** 978-81-985733-
8-4 (9788198573384)

_**About the Author**_
 Sahana Mukherjee is from Kolkata, and pursuing doctoral 
research in the UK. She has been writing poetry for a decade now, and her poems 
have appeared in several literary magazines, journals and anthologies. This is her
second volume with **Writers Workshop**, India, after _**[August Ache](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/august-ache/)**_(
2019).

_**Teaser**_

_Mother like Autumn_

I wonder what my mother does
 Without me – How she draws water from words In her
tepid loneliness; If she glistens like an abandoned knife Under the sun; If she 
follows the trail of an ivy. I wonder what she does After waking up at the bottom
Of my dream – How she folds the creases Of its uproar; If she hands me the sourness
Of a ripe berry; If she leaves behind a piece Of her soul.

_**Contents**_
 And How We’ve Been / 11 Sweltering / 12 Like a Sparrow / 13 Softly
Like a Thimble / 14 Blithely / 15 “it is time, it were time” / 16 In-between / 17

Meralgia Parasthetica / 21
 How We Made It in Rain / 26 Pre-cyclonic / 29 Father&
I / 31 Homeward / 36 This Place of Quiet / 39

Mother like Autumn / 45
 Seven Seas & Thirteen Rivers Away / 46 An Open Window /
47 Winters After / 48 Straight Grows the Mulberry Branch / 49 Ends of February /
50 A Feather through Your Songs / 51

Ghazals / 55

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