Synopsis Margaret Chatterjee's fifth collection of verse draws on her varied experience as philosopher, musician, critic and traveler. The poems include highly condensed short works which take flight from an image, and longer ones which deal with the narrative of experience. She combines an Indian rootedness of concern with a wide-ranging transcendence of frontiers. This is evidenced most of all in the title poem which is the key to the rest. Her work shows the sensitivity to space and time which we would expect from a well-known philosopher. V.K. Gokak's comment on Indian poetry written in English is well illustrated in this volumer: "¦its constant endeavour is to delineate the essential humanity and universality which make the world her kith and kin."