India, March 28 -- About the Book

Midnight Haze, Poems

Author: Kaia Roy

Publisher: Authors Press

Price: Rs 295/-

Poems that capture the emotions, doubts and hopes of a young mind

An engrossing and unusual bildungsroman, Kaia Roy's book of poems Midnight Haze helps readers to embed themselves in the process of growing up in India today. The author, thirteen years old, demystifies several assumptions that adults hold about young people because they do not understand the rapid unfurling of technology, opportunity, selfhood, doubt and aspirations in the digital world that surrounds us. Kaia Roy's poetry is an entry pass that opens the panorama to a two-way process of interaction between the new energy and the old habits of thinking.

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