Of Draughts and Drizzles

About the Book: This anthology has a panoramic view of life as it is in verses with titles that thematically give insight at the same time create a curiosity to delve into the kaleidoscopic moods and situations that the poet has experienced in person or have been shared with by some acquaintances or has read or come across on the social network platform. Sheer skeletal sharing makes events of life blandly journalistic so a dash of feelings with emotional hues is embedded to provide an aesthetic flavour to relish every word that might lend wings to ones imagination. The anthology is broadly divided into two sections. The first section has a tangy salty pungent and sour taste as life primarily is and the second section has a dessert of emotions taking the reader towards the eastern horizon to witness the sunrise. About the Author: An educationist with thirty-seven years of experience in direct interaction with high school students across all political religious social economic and spiritual borders she is a retired facilitator from regular service. Her hobby is meeting people and listening to their personal stories that most of them have kept away from others for whatever reason. Traveling to both urban and rural interiors of this country and some places overseas she has been trying to fill her basket of experience year after year. Her love for reading original and translated works of prose and poetry music plays and films irrespective of any genre still continues. This piece of sixty-eight poems is her first post-retirement attempt to make her venture into a literary world reigned by literary mammoths. She hopes to take her next step in a prosaic manner after this poetic introduction. With much trepidation the poet therefore is slightly hopeful about this initial attempt of reaching out