A Wor(l)dly Affair!
Poetry is like a spider's web-suspended and intricately balanced on reality at the corners,ensnaring the reader with its beauty!
In this debut poetry collection,Shalini has craftily spun such everyday musings,many of which might bring a smile on your face,some might make you ponder a little.With her wide-ranging genres,she shares with her readers an innovative collection of passionate and perceptive odes adorned with the often ignored observations from the world we live in.
Get ready to immerse yourself in the imaginative foreground built with thoughtful illustrations.A well knotted hammock with this book on a not-so-knotted lazy afternoon will be an icing on the cake.Happy reading.
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Book Details
Imprint
V&S Publishers
Publication Year
2020 October
Table of Contents
Contents:
1. Dedication
2. Preface
3. Incubator: My Dad's Library Desk
4. Wind to My Wings
5. ?The? Letter
6. Art
7. 3 Friends
8. The First Flight
9. Diceland
10. Privileges I Do Not Seek
11. Let it Out
12. Lane Number 52
13. Dear Dr. Kalam
14. In My Defense
15. Uncomfortable Confessions
16. The Worse Verses
17. The Eleventh Hour
18. Ready to Roll!
19. Fist-sized Heart
20. May I?
21. Bombay Meri Jaan
22. Children of Lesser God
23. Dear Stars
24. For the Poet in You
25. The Dark Herd 's Ploy
26. Go Cold Turkey
27. An Odd Ode
28. Block your Calendar Today
29. Dear Diary
30. Happy Women?s Day Yet?
31. ?Park? The Zoo
32. Unfurled
33. The Strange Woman
34. Earmarked Yet?
35. Pivoted Enough?
36. The Moonlit Canvas
37. My Kind of Love!
38. Have you Met this Girl?
39. Dear Silver Lining!
40. An Odd Escape
41. Is Your Love Empowering?
42 .Spill Over?
43. The Rusty Shadows
44. From a Lot of Us to Each of You
45. Go Dare!
46. To the Love that Wasn't Ours
47. That Side Lane
48. Uncomfortably Numb
49. Lost and Found in Love
50. Beyond the First Cut!
Contributors
Author Info
A marketeer, go-getter,millennial, and a budding Indian writer, Shalini has been putting pen to paper since childhood. It is her love for proses and rhymes that draws her to wordplay despite a busy professional life. She enjoys writing in English, Hindi and in Punjabi. She has been appreciated by the Late President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam for the poetic letter she wrote to him titled Dear Dr. Kalam. She has been appreciated by the Late President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam for the poetic letter she wrote to him titled Dear Dr. Kalam.