Uma Mani

The author graduated from the University of Bombay with honors in English Literature in 1968. Thereafter she joined a course in Creative Writing in English and a post-graduate ¬diploma course in Journalism at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She is currently overseeing operations in a publishing company in Chennai. She had been writing casually in college, and ventured into serious writing after marriage. This collection spans a period of thirty five years. Her main source of inspiration was her father, a reputed journalist in the pre- and post-Independence eras. A believeRead More...


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This collection spreads its wings over diverse issues: Emotions, (joy or grief) old age problems (financial insecurities, loneliness and fear of death); relationships, nostalgia, changing society, obsession for electronic products and more. There is no single thread of unity running through these poems.

The opening poem “The Young and the Old” may make you think this slim volume deals only with geriatric issues. But then you read about a dog waitin

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