{"id":346759,"date":"2023-12-01T01:41:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T07:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=346759"},"modified":"2023-12-01T01:41:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T07:11:11","slug":"these-verses-take-you-along-rather-too-spontaneously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/these-verses-take-you-along-rather-too-spontaneously\/","title":{"rendered":"These verses take you along rather too spontaneously\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Title of the book- DEWED<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author – Nandita Bose<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher \u2013 Atta Galatta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price \u2013 Rs 275<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages \u2013 104<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he Bengaluru-based poet-writer Nandita Bose\u2019s verse is so refreshingly uncomplicated that it just gets absorbed straight in, in the reader\u2019s being. One gets taken aback by the sheer  intensity-cum-diversity of the entire  expanse\u2026 hitting,  her verse, the emotions, the relays. A book review by humra quraishi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m all for the uncomplicated and the simple and the straight forward. Whether it is verse or prose or a person!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the Bengaluru-based poet-writer Nandita Bose\u2019s verse is so refreshingly uncomplicated that it just gets absorbed straight in, in the reader\u2019s being. In fact, when she handed me her this particular book I\u2019d thought I would quote a verse or two from it, in one of  my columns but then I was completely taken aback by the sheer  intensity-cum-diversity of the entire  expanse\u2026 hitting,  her verse, the emotions, the relays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nandita\u2019s verse takes you along rather too spontaneously, without any pulls or pressures. There comes in that instant connect. It\u2019s best to put right here her verse\u2026you\u2019ll then perhaps comprehend what I\u2019m trying to relay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nandita Bose\u2019s verse tucked in, in this book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018everyone warned me\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

circumstances were against it \/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

people thought it was a  bad idea\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

acquaintances hoped for  better sense\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

friends were unsupportive\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

intimates scandalized\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

my judgement was overridden\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

all caution ignored\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you drew me towards you\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I went.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—–<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Come, walk with me where no one goes,\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

talk of things no one does,\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of how your  heart grew  young,\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mine old,\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to reach out to death and pretend\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to enjoy birthdays and gifts,\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from those who will not give us time,\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

tell me of dreams you no longer dream,\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

or of  graveyards you  visit  every day\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will tell you of a childhood\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In which I died unseen.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

_____<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Those canals now dry and boats burnt\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as firewood\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our parrots are gone. In the orchards \/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

only shadows of crows.\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mud path, straight as vermillion parting\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mussed by elephant grass\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even kites don\u2019t fly in my village anymore,\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

just the young, away\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between here and my village centuries break\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ageing like hills\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would walk back but they built walls\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No man\u2019s land a shooting range\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annihilation needs no wars or the plague\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And<\/a> time does the deed.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title of the book- DEWED Author – Nandita Bose Publisher \u2013 Atta Galatta Price \u2013 Rs 275 Pages \u2013 104 he Bengaluru-based poet-writer Nandita Bose\u2019s verse is so refreshingly uncomplicated that it just gets absorbed straight in, in the reader\u2019s being. One gets taken aback by the sheer  intensity-cum-diversity of the entire  expanse\u2026 hitting,  her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[650,23,2205],"tags":[17641],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346761,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346759\/revisions\/346761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/346760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}