About the Author Harnidh Kaur is at present pursuing her Master’s in Public Policy from St. Xavier’s, Mumbai. This is the 21 years old’s first collection of poetry.

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Of Aunts To Masi

Dear niece/nephew I don’t know when you will exist, or how, or where, or if, but I do know that we’ll be friends and we’ll sit, hidden in a corner when your parents talk of worldly things that make no sense, because you couldn’t care less about taxes and mortgages when your attention is captured by that new girl in class, or the poem you wrote and nobody stopped to read because you’re just a child, and I’ll buy you things your parents would be scared of, because they’d be gifts that spoil you rotten, and lead to a waste of time, because they’ll be the very things that make you wish for more than what you always saw as ‘good’ and ‘fine’; they’ll be books that make you question, and think beyond what you’re supposed to, and candles that make you dream of meadows and open fields, and oceans, and lavender, and paints and pastels you’ll draw universes with on walls, and empty diaries to colour in with your thoughts, and pens and pencils you’ll use on yourself to trace histories, and I’ll pay for your tattoos and they’ll be the kinds that make you fall in love with your own skin and I’ll pay for the drinks that ease heartbreaks and I’ll make sure you know that someone has faith in you when you don’t, and I’ll do all of that because someone did that for me, and after all these years, she’s still the most beautiful woman I’ve ever known.

Contents 66 poems spread across 6 sections