Dehradun, Oct. 17 -- Book Review

'Haiku no Hanataba' by Ajay Jugraan

This particular review has been long in waiting. Haiku no Hanataba is a work of love by someone who wears more than just one hat with grace and wisdom, author-poet Ajay Jugraan.

A chance encounter in a Seattle park with a group of Haiku lovers inspired Ajay to be a novel entrant to the world of Japanese poetry writing and led him to create a colourful bouquet of a hundred English haikus for his readers across the globe, which he dedicates to his mother, who in his words had, "the ability to see something positive, something beautiful in every being, in everything".

Known in the literary world for his creative work such as "The Bridge on the River Song" (a collection ...