Mumbai author's book of poems explores her transition to the city centre from Kalyan

Updated On: 05 May, 2016 08:22 AM IST | | Dipanjan Sinha

Though Kalyan is merely 40km away from Mumbai, the social distance between the two places for short story writer and poet Rochelle Potkar was immense in her formative years

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Though Kalyan is merely 40km away from Mumbai, the social distance between the two places for short story writer and poet Rochelle Potkar was immense in her formative years.
"Growing up between 1970 and 1990, Mumbai was aspirational, visited only once a year. We would visit Crawford Market, Juhu Beach, and Chira Bazaar to haggle over gold, and to the Bandra fair," she recounts.