India, June 6 -- This poetry collection fearlessly confronts profound grief, offering a powerful exploration of loss, resilience and the human spirit's enduring strength

Grief is an experience that is known to all of us, some encounter it briefly while others live with it forever. Living in grief or rather living on with grief is extremely daunting and challenging and we tend to hold back our state of mind and the volatile assault of emotions from the purview of the public.

Middle-class women, in particular, are expected to participate in ritual mourning but not talk about their grief in public.

We are counselled to uphold our 'dignity' and adhere to decorum as codified by our society. Swati Pal defies this unwritten, socially imposed ...