Dear Father
Author: Balesh Jindal
Pages: 42
Year of Publication: 1994
Price: ₹100
ISBN: 81-7189-696-0 (8171896960)
About the Author
Dr Balesh Jindal is a graduate of Lady Hardinge Medical College and has been engaged with rural medical practice for over four decades. A pioneering physician and community health advocate, she has cared for five generations within the same families. After publishing this book, she went on to write The Reluctant Doctor, A Hundred Dreams and A False Sky and has contributed to numerous anthologies. Her work has earned international recognition including the Award For Compassion from Stanford University, the Rabindranath Tagore Award for Literature (2023), the New York City Big Book Award, the Asian Literary Society Award and honours from leading medical bodies for exemplary community service. She continues to practise, create art pieces and write, guided by the conviction that empathy is the foundation of medicine, art and literature.
About the Book
“Dear Father is my first collection of poems. I had lost my father just a few years back and was hurting with his loss so a few poems are about losing him. The grief, the hopelessness and the days that rose and set without any meaning. Mother’s blank face, without a trace of a smile, vacant eyes and the white garb that she adopted readily. Anyone who has lost a parent, this book is for you.
Some poems are about nature and even new relationships, some sour and others sweet as all relationships are. In these pages, time is not a linear path but a loop of seasons, emotions and moments that blur like the brush of twilight across the sky. The rhythm of the world beats in quiet echoes — sometimes loud, sometimes soft — capturing the grace and agony of things that exist only in the space between heartbeats.”
Dr Balesh Jindal
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