Ballad of Bapu

Dr. Santosh Bakaya, an academician, scholar, author, essayist, and poet from India is truly an incredible woman who has already created an important niche for herself in both the literary and the academic...

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Star – light, star bright [A story that begins and ends with a person looking up at the stars] He looked up at the stars and sighed, counting them one by one. There was total silence in the neighborhood,...

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The colourful balloons soaring against a blue sky catch one’s attention at first sight, bringing the sense of joy that balloons always do. ‘A Skyful of Balloons’ is a novella by the erudite wordsmith,...

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The eminent author-academic-blogger-biographer-TedX speaker from Jaipur, India, Santosh Bakaya discusses her world and craft with fellow writer and editor Sunil Sharma. Q: What does it mean to be: a...

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Everyone has a story to tell; each one of us writes poetry – some, without even realising. That stream of consciousness that runs in our veins? It’s poetry waiting to be written. We believe in the...

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Interviewing Dr. Santosh Bakaya, Author of Where Are The Lilacs, a collection of poems on restoring peace and harmony. With her stupendous poetic treatise Ballad of Bapu (published by Vitasta, 2015) on...

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A colorful imaginative re-telling supposedly based on factful research, The Secret Diary of Kasturba builds on what it meant to be Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mahatma Gandhi. At its best, its an interesting book, that tries to present Mahatma Gandhi in a different...

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The story of India’s most celebrated Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib retold by Gulzar, one of the most famous Urdu poets of the modern era, this book outlines the life and times of Mirza Ghalib. A figure that remains the subject of much intrigue and romanticism even after...

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Jagjit Singh, the ghazal king of India, was a singer, composer, arranger, lyricist, all rolled into one. Besides which he was a brother, friend, husband, and above all a father. I was in my second year of college when suddenly the tv in the activity room declared...

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