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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalOf Dreams and Mermaids is a meditative canvas of verses from the seas and shores. A roadside bench could be the hero in one and God Himself in another. A petal takes centre stage but then so does the City itself. When one is humbled by a storm at sea, the answer in the other is sought through a lively easel. Without preaching, the poems gently guide you into realizing that the everyday is as precious and beautiful as the exotic and the adventurous. Some beautiful colour photography from around the world accompanies this very special book of verses.
Devendra Bhatnagar
Capt. Devendra Bhatnagar aka ‘Bhutto’ loves the written word. And loves this ‘new’ thing called WhatsApp. He also relishes early morning hours when the world sleeps, his dog CJ next to him, for penning thoughts that flow from his mind to this virtual window of the family WhatsApp group. A positive response or two from the family enables him to send the poem virtually to his various friends and family around the world. How amazing! How old fashioned to have it in print then! Nevertheless, old is gold, so we hear, and therefore this book. Bhutto loves eggs, books, the ocean, CJ, CNN News, mithai, chocolate milkshakes, good coffee, a great malt, dinners with friends, cycling and the occasional film in a cinema theater (he has slept through some of them though).
Bhutto is also the Managing Director of the leading health food company, Whole Foods India. He was a Captain in the Merchant Navy, sailed close to 27 years and has circumnavigated the world numerous times on the freighters. To all who know him, Devendra is the ‘rock’, the dependable source of strength, the pillar, the listener and the ever-reliable ‘Son, Father, Husband, Friend, Boss and also Bestest Friend to his beloved dogs’.
This is his first book of verse.
