Authors: Satish Kumar Sharma
Pages: 100
Year of Publication: 2025
Price: ₹400
ISBN: 978-81-979136-5-5 (9788197913655)
 
About the Author
Satish Kumar Sharma was born in Rajasthan in 1959. A post-graduate in commerce and graduate in law, he was an officer in the State Bank of India three years before joining the Indian Police Service in 1986. He served in the Gujarat cadre, rose to the rank of Director General, and retired in 2019. A freelance writer under the name Satish K. Sharma since 2005, he has published over 400 articles on diverse subjects like humour, spirituality, recollections from life and professional policing in leading English newspapers of India. He writes a weekly column for the Ahmedabad Mirror and is a regular contributor to The Tribune.
He has been writing poetry since 2001. He composes poetry in Hindi also, and has published an anthology titled Dusari Subah ki Or. This is his first book in English. He lives in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Teaser
Mother tongue
Way back then
When we were children
Mothers had no tongue.
Young daughters-in-law
In joint families were
More like mute puppets.
They could find
Their voice years later
Or if the family happened
To go nuclear.
But by then, one was
Already in school,
Grappling with the algebra
Of the three-languages formula,
All alien
From the three
One first saw
Mother speaking in –
Cautious susurration
From behind the veil,
Silence and tears.
 
Contents
62 poems