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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalLife is a series of inconsequential details, acts, speeches and thoughts which remain so, but when we pen it down and visit the memory bank, it becomes our window to relive and refuel ourselves poignantly in quieter repose.
Get away from toxic media reports and lethargic boredom and seek refuge in the pages of Walking Shadows. Many a time, we feel lost between the stark truth and our grandiose dreams. Walking Shadows helps you to lose yourself in some realistically creative, romantic moments. Every page has a trail of memories which succulently take you along on a journey which, as you read, seems to be only yours.
Walking Shadows is a saga of two professionals who gave the best years of their lives to their professions, and finally gave their passion their best after retirement. This is a legacy which they wish to bequeath to their readers, the essence of which will continue to breathe forever and ever.
Ranjana Joshi
Ranjana Joshi, hailing from the sylvan city of Dehradun is an academician and a social activist. She is the Director of Adesh Joshi Memorial Trust. Now she is settled in Gurugram, Haryana,India. ‘Walking Shadows’ was her first widely acclaimed pictorial poetry book. After retirement from a leading school in Delhi, writing has been her passion. Writing in lyrical and at times in prose style, she enjoys creating an imagery of her words.
Her sensitive and perceptive mind picks up experiences from life and weaves them in a lyrical narrative which is simple as it is poetic and sensous. Her emphasis is on incidents in the development of the soul. Nature in her poems serves as the most appropriate background for human thought and emotion. In ‘Echoes’, she explores the eddies and backwaters and torrents in the current of life. She tries to stay at whatever moment in its course and arrives at its complete significance. If she portrays tragedy, it is not only an occasion for some outburst of grief but also a source from which she gathers strength. And out of defeat, she weaves the experience into the fabric of character and imbues its resignation with new thought and resolve for other ventures.
In each poem there is a situation as it reveals the soul of the protagonist. She prefers to study the inner landscape. The inner man, the psyche of the individual. The poems in ‘Echoes’ unravel the intricate tangle of human motives, moods, emotions and thoughts.
The photographs complimenting the poems in ‘Echoes’ have been captured by her sons majorly. Uday Joshi, who has been working in the creative field of animation in movies and gaming industry , also worked as Project Manager in the Oscar winning Movie “Life of Pie”.
Utkarsh Joshi, who pursues photography as a hobby is Vice President with a technology company and has also contributed some photographs.
The photographs speak alongside the poems and help one to visualize the essence of the poems.
Email – ranjanajoshi0706@gmail.com
