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Author: Debarun SarkarA sample cover of the book: dark purple coloured 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.
Pages: 68
Year of Publication: 2021
Price: Rs 200
ISBN:
978-81-949985-7-0 (9788194998570)

About the Author
Debarun Sarkar sleeps, reads, eats, drinks, smokes, labours, occasionally (ghost)writes and submits. He has spent a considerable amount of time living in Surat, Calcutta, New Town, Hyderabad, Bombay and is currently halting at Bangalore.

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Gentrified Neighbourhoods

Landscapes gentrified out of hamlets
with sky-reaching habitable structures

are always surrounded by huge roads
and are almost always bereft of trees.

The dryness of the street dries the breath
with sunlight and dust. Huge asphalt

of parking yard shines, reflects as
if its glorious existence mattered

to be displayed like an installation art
at an art gallery in the art district.

The 40-storeyed building looks down
on the street like a frail person

so thin, so weak, without any sense
of grandeur like the brutalist structures.

Cars with their a/c switched on speed
past, blasting hot air and dust into

passer-by bodies struggling to locate
a public bus or an affordable hawker.

Contents

for a ground to stand on … / 9
18 poems

and not belong to … / 35
18 poems