Synopsis This collection deals with the eternal themes of love, life, suffering and hope for salvation. In addition, it incorporates the contemporary complex problems like increasing individuality and the resultant isolation, growing tension in man-woman relationship, fragmentation of society and family, the plight of old men and Indian women, and militancy and communal violence. But what is unique in this collection is the intermingling of these problems with the creative process of poetry. It is rare to find so many poems in one Indian collection written on the art of creation. And all these subjects are presented with a passion for direct expression, without much myth or metaphor, so that words touch the raw wounds of heart quietly, caressingly.