July 12, 2010Oxford Book Store
The author will read from her work and interact with the readers.
Excerpt from the Book:
"Calcutta was different then. Just five years back even, it didn't race to collide, but walked to guide. Romi chuckled out softly. Ma's habit of thinking in poetry is catching up with me. Ma would've definitely made a face and replaced the word guide with abide. I still remember the day when she and father were watching a television show, where a man was smoking a cheroot and Ma had cried out: Look...how he starts by making one soul of a thousand 24 Ideospheres of Pain hungry stomachs...unemployed thinking stomachs. Look, he wants to now extend their hunger to that dank theatre called Academy, where the first three rows are of leather, and the rest are wooden chairs infested with bugs. Hah, land of equals."
About the author
June Nandy has received her Masters degree (English & Hindi) and is a professional translator for about ten years. Her alma-mater includes Presidency College, Calcutta, Calcutta University, IGNOU, New Delhi. Formally trained in Hindustani Classical Music from Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, and Ghazal tutelage under reverent gurus, she has been telecasted by Door-Darshan Kendra, Kolkata and other semi-classical city soirees number of times. June Nandy s poetries have been published by various reputed national and international literary journals in North America, United Kingdom, Malaysia and India such as Taj Mahal Review (India), Sein Und Werden (UK), featured poet of Poetry Super Highway (USA), Kota Press, featured poet of Up the Staircase Literary Review (USA), Gloom Cupboard (USA), Decanto Magazine (UK), Clockwise Cat (USA), Heavy Bear (USA), Malaysian Poetic Chronicles (Malaysia), Kritya (India), Femina (India), Ultra Violet (India), The Beat (USA), Aphelion Webzine (USA). She has won the third prize in the poetry contest organised by the Prakriti Foundation (Chennai, India) in 2009.
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