Srinagar, Dec. 10 -- Losing a loved one is never easy to accept. It plunges us into the most harrowing depths of mental and emotional anguish, often accompanied by physical pain. Translating that raw grief into words is, in itself, a Herculean task-yet this is precisely what Saumya Bhatia achieves with remarkable grace in her debut book - a poetic collection One Day at a Time.

The collection (of both English and Hindi poems) does not shout; it whispers. Quiet, intimate, and profoundly moving, these poems speak straight to the heart. Written as a daughter's tender tribute to her late father, the book navigates the fragile landscape of loss with extraordinary sensitivity and emotional clarity.

In her introduction, the author writes with q...