Navodaya Series of Goddesses and Women

Indian poets writing in English have over the years, brought in a novelty in their own diverse and unique style and way of composition. They are their tools of empowerment, their dignity, and their identity as a poet. Poems being expressions, make the poets live on. In a modern-day dystopic world, the question is not about finding relatability but of finding the essence of life, of past myths that are a living part of our existence in a changing society. There is always a reason amidst ambiguity, that fashion the milleu's ruminations. A poem calms as it storms, speaks as it thinks, observes as it endeavours to be vocal. The poet Shweta Rao Garg has presented 51 poems, narrative and descriptive lyrics, straddling the twin world of emotion and sentiments versus reason and opinion. The poems are not meant for just a casual reading but are serious reflections. One must listen to her poems as they prove that strength comes from facing life. The saying that it is the readers who make the poem, is so true. In this collection, the human passion, the lyrical style, the narratives, invigorate promise of a new canvas in each poem with their pan-Indian with unvarnished truths of life. If our spinal-cord can regenerate neurons, Garg's penchant for verses can create beautiful organic poems. The poems are subtle in thought, subjective in their multifarious waves, and undulating in their sensibilities for the new-age-readers, and a tribute to their oeuvre.