The Writer

How shall we place him? A humanist? An emerging poet? Lover of nature? Seeker of truth? These questions naturally arise as we read this collection of the author’s writings during the last two decades. Actually he is all of them- and more. Whether the reflection presented here are narrative, lyrical or contemplative – as he classifies them – there is one striking note that runs through all, and that is his passion for love which is another face of truth. No experience of life- and evidently he has had many – leaves him bitter. Even death reveals to him another side of life.

The themes he handles are varied. The way he expresses himself makes us wonder what the strength of his appeal is. Beauty of sky? Power of thought? No, it is the authenticity of his experience, psychological and spiritual, that touches the reader and makes him as humble as the writer himself. Whether he speaks of the guru ‘who leaves no footprints’ or of prayer with the language of ‘tears in the eye’ rather than of ‘words upon the lips’ or of the trap of solitude, we are the presence of an ardent seeker. The thinker in him love precision of expression: truth, he says, is beyond method astrology is indicative, not determinative.