Bhini – My essence

Description

Life is a recipe and emotions are it’s spices. Author describes the pinches and prescriptions in BHINI. Hope, honour, feeling of creating a home ; having one or leaving it, realizing love and it’s 70 shades, life is nothing but balancing the flavour of all these spices and BHINI is an attempt to add the slight yet strong aroma to it. When it comes to poetry, each peice is a story with three phases of ascent, crescent and descent in two phrases. We enter a peice, fall for it and leave with a memory. Bhini is an anthology that entertains our escape from the world of reality where without a name, we witness what we know is accurate with the title it stands for. Bhini is the author’s essence, for she prefers dealing with love and anticipation in hindi while she knows english flows better in her ink when she senses fear, rage and fight. Being a bilingual book, ‘BHINI’ has it’s perk in connecting with both the languages and the dear readers from each section. BHINI is a chance to go through a journey from loneliness to finding peace and rest all what lies in between. As it flows, some corners are filled in smiles, some trenches will give tremors, some waves are answers and some drains are still a question. Dive in it and drown to learn what it feels to swim against the flow…

About The Author

Being a child born in haryana and brought up in delhi, all I could think was what I have to do for being ‘the being’ I am expected to be. I was always told,” Ritu, you are the eldest of the 4 siblings and hence you have this ability and also the responsibility to set an example”. One question that had hit me in my knees and knuckles, “who is my example, whom do I have to follow”. On the contrary to search for an inspiration, all I ever encountered were some half souls surrounding me and it was the moment to realize, be YOU. This life solely belongs to you and no one else can live it on your behalf. At present, being a teacher to medical trainees I realize my responsibilities and my abilities. Poetry has always been there in good and bad times and I know nothing more sacred than the abstraction of power ‘the words’ give me as a writer, as RITU. It is ok to be in one’s own skin and my skin is the shade of my ink. When I had to do the introduction in my debut book, I could not hope for anyone but she describing me as : ‘you make me speechless, how can I create a monster with a heart’ —My Mother.